The granddaughter of Saddam

Granddaughter of Saddam: Author: Hareer Hussein Kamal Language: Arabic Publication date: 2018 Book format: Paperback Publisher: Arab Scientific Publishers Number of pages: 230 Book classification: Biographies and autobiographies Description: In these memoirs, the granddaughter of Saddam tries to read the past from a different time moment, opening up to the past through the act of memory, and to the present through the act of writing. This confirms its essential communicative nature in conveying and transmitting values, ideas, and convictions that are narrated within an equation balancing the self / the memoirist and the state of grief that afflicts her, which makes the recipient feel that it is directed to him personally, so he interacts with it even in its most painful moments: "This was the hardest chapter in my memoirs... the clash... the killer and the killed among those I loved (...) One of the main reasons that pushed me to write about this difficult and complex subject... and to restore painful memories... is that I love them all... and I even love their human mistakes, from which we all must learn..." In this sense, the purpose of writing the memoirs is like a call to support dialogue, acceptance of differences, tolerance, and opening a new blank page to turn over dozens of black pages. The book consists of thirteen chapters, including pages from the author's early childhood, relationships among women in the family, sisters with each other, occasions, celebrations, and sorrows, revealing secrets and conflicts between the grandfather and the son-in-law, behind-the-scenes of the split of her father Hussein Kamel, his departure to Jordan, his return, and his death, as well as conspiracies targeting Iraq, the beginning of the American invasion, targeting the family, fleeing to Syria, and adventures of survival. The memoirs end with the execution of the American grandfather, who, according to the author, was "executed in Iraq."