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Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan

Norma Khouri

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Description:This book was revealed to be a literary hoax.The Inside Story of Disgraced Author Norma Khouri..... Malcolm Knox was able to write the first of what turned out to be a Walkley Award-winning series of articles with his colleague, Caroline Overington. “Norma Khouri is a fake,” he wrote, “and so is Forbidden Love. Khouri’s real name is Norma Majid Khouri Michael Al-Bagain Toliopoulos and she only lived in Jordan until she was three years old. She has a US passport and lived from 1973 until 2000 in Chicago. She is married with two children, 13 and 11."More details have emerged in a story by well-known journalist David Leser, published in The Australian Women's Weekly ..... Leser reveals for the first time that Khouri admits that she lied in the writing of her book, Forbidden Love. "Look, I did lie, but I lied for a reason. It wasn't fame and fortune I was after, not at all. It was about the issue [of honour killings]. And I apologise to you for lying. I justified it in my head as the ends justifying the means. I hated lying to anyone about anything."Excerpt from back cover of book: Dalia was a young, beautiful Arabian Muslim living with her family in Amman, Jordan. At the age of twenty-five, she unexpectedly fell in love with Michael, a major in the Royal Army, and a Catholic. For a Muslim woman, any relationship with a Catholic man is forbidden, and Dalia was only too aware that flouting this rule could cost her her life.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan. To get started finding Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book was revealed to be a literary hoax.The Inside Story of Disgraced Author Norma Khouri..... Malcolm Knox was able to write the first of what turned out to be a Walkley Award-winning series of articles with his colleague, Caroline Overington. “Norma Khouri is a fake,” he wrote, “and so is Forbidden Love. Khouri’s real name is Norma Majid Khouri Michael Al-Bagain Toliopoulos and she only lived in Jordan until she was three years old. She has a US passport and lived from 1973 until 2000 in Chicago. She is married with two children, 13 and 11."More details have emerged in a story by well-known journalist David Leser, published in The Australian Women's Weekly ..... Leser reveals for the first time that Khouri admits that she lied in the writing of her book, Forbidden Love. "Look, I did lie, but I lied for a reason. It wasn't fame and fortune I was after, not at all. It was about the issue [of honour killings]. And I apologise to you for lying. I justified it in my head as the ends justifying the means. I hated lying to anyone about anything."Excerpt from back cover of book: Dalia was a young, beautiful Arabian Muslim living with her family in Amman, Jordan. At the age of twenty-five, she unexpectedly fell in love with Michael, a major in the Royal Army, and a Catholic. For a Muslim woman, any relationship with a Catholic man is forbidden, and Dalia was only too aware that flouting this rule could cost her her life.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan. To get started finding Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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