Dimensions
148 x 222 x 36mm
Imagine a country where a girl of 11 can be abandoned by her family because she refuses the sexual advances of a "husband" more than three times her age, a country where a girl of 14 can be poisoned by her family because she has lost her honour in her rape by unknown assailants.
It was in this environment that Khadija al-Salami grew up in a walled city under siege for nine years and in which she witnessed things that no child should be compelled to witness. This is the tale of how she overcame her own traumatic and abusive childhood and fought her way alone in a man's world, soon learning to support and care for her family.
It is not only the story of her own survival but also that of her country's struggle to overcome the years of civil war and become once more the land of milk and honey once inhabited by the legendary Queen of Sheba.
