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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent book, if a true memoir (see below). Souad's life in her small village in Jordon under her father's rule is torn apart when she as a naive teen gets involved with a neighbor boy. The boy gets off with no punishment, but she is condemned to death by her father. How she is burned alive and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78980741">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[	Souad had done a wonderful job in telling her truly heart wrenching story in being a Muslim woman in the West Banks.  I started out the book disgusted at the customs of these sexist villages.  Although it is very hard to believe what these men can do to their family, it is sadly true.  In Souad’s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77980204">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes, he crept up on her, poured petrol over her and set her alight. In the eyes of their community he was a hero. An execution for a 'crime of honour' was a respectable duty unlikely to bring about condemnation from others. It certainly would not have provoked calls for his prosecution. More than five thousand cases of such honour killings are reported around the world each year and many more take place that we hear nothing about. Miraculously, Souad survived rescued by the women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horrifically burned, and abandoned by her family and community, it was only the intervention of a European aid worker that enabled Souad to receive the care and sanctuary she so desperately needed and to start her life again.  She has now decided to tell her story and uncover the barbarity of honour killings, a practice which continues to this day. Burned Alive is a shocking testimony, a true story of almost unbelievable cruelty. It speaks of amazing courage and fortitude and of one woman's determination to survive. It is also a call to break the taboo of silence that surrounds this most brutal of practices and which ignores the plight of so many other women who are also victims of traditional violence.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Souad(not real name) lived in the west bank some 20 years ago, she got pregnant out of wedlock, and was burned alive by her brother in law (as the one who was chosen by her family to perform the act of honor-killing) because of the disgrace she brought into her family. While burning she ran away and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54296760">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely heart wrenching.  The prose and style isn't the best but what do you expect from somebody who isn't a professional author?  Souad's words of physical pain, heartbreak, fear, and betrayal are real and touch to the very core. She gets her point across very clearly. <br/><br/>Souad was the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60704447">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Scariest and the most interesting book i have every read!!!<br/>I was literally crying when i was reading this book. I just can't believe this happens to women all around the world. What about the men who make a girl pregnant? Its really disturbing to know that this is happening and this book was a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40032038">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes, he crept up on her, poured petrol over her and set her alight. In the eyes of their community he was a hero. An execution for a 'crime of honour' was a respectable duty unlikely to bring about condemnation from others. It certainly would not have provoked calls for his prosecution. More than five thousand cases of such honour killings are reported around the world each year and many more take place that we hear nothing about. Miraculously, Souad survived rescued by the women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horrifically burned, and abandoned by her family and community, it was only the intervention of a European aid worker that enabled Souad to receive the care and sanctuary she so desperately needed and to start her life again.  She has now decided to tell her story and uncover the barbarity of honour killings, a practice which continues to this day. Burned Alive is a shocking testimony, a true story of almost unbelievable cruelty. It speaks of amazing courage and fortitude and of one woman's determination to survive. It is also a call to break the taboo of silence that surrounds this most brutal of practices and which ignores the plight of so many other women who are also victims of traditional violence.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[membuka pikiran kita tentang (masih) banyaknya penindasan bagi kaum perempuan yang terjadi di dunia, yang mengatas-namakan adat istiadat &amp; nama baik keluarga.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[At once harrowing and moving, this international bestseller is the first true account ever published by the victim of an 'honor crime.' Souad was a 17-year-old woman living in a small village in Jordan when she made the mistake of falling in love-an event that would lead to unspeakable acts of violence and a lifetime of exile from her homeland. Desperate to leave her abusive childhood behind, Souad begins a relationship with a neighbor-one that would leave her pregnant, and her family shamed. Now, Souad faces the only punishment her society deems acceptable: death. Her survival of her family's attempt to kill her, leaving her with burns over 70% of her body, her dramatic escape, and her resolve to build a new life is a tale of heartbreaking drama and remarkable courage.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[People speak of being &quot;burned&quot; by others, women speak of being burned by men, but never do they imagine literally burned, as Souad was burned for falling in love with a man--her parents decided her punishment was death, and that her brother-in-law was to be the person to &quot;take care of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11718675">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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