Unveiled: How An American Woman Found Her way through Politics, Love and Obedience in the Middle East     by Deborah Kanafani           Simon and Schuster  Free Press    simonsays.com


Toujan Al Faisel, former member of the Jordanian Parliment  talks  about escaping execution by the fundamentalists at her trial. 

 

 

 

Baha Kikhia tells the story in Unveiled of her search for her kidnapped husband through the Egyptian Secret police to the deserts of Lybia where she confronts Khadaffi in an Arabian tent late one evening.

Mrs. Arafat  (with a jounalist on the left and the author's former husband on the right) conveys the challanges of  her marriage to Yassir Arafat, her  struggles with the men surrounding her husband and an inside view of what happened at the historical Washington DC peace signing.

The author with Yassir Arafat and her daughter


Yassir Arafat with the author's children

 

The author's former husband (on the right) with the Pope and Arafat


Queen Dina shares the story of her marriage and divorce to King Hussien of Jordan and her eventual marriage to  the King's enemy, a dashing young PLO commando. The former Queen and her husband befriend an Isreal jounalist and his wife. Together they change history.

 


The author with Salah Tamari, (the Queens's second husband (seated) at their home above Bethlehem.