What is this about really? Some sort of smear campaign against Jordan?
A Syrian publishing house that translated a best selling book written by a Jordanian author on Saturday said their only goal was to publicize the problem of honour killings.
“Honour crimes are a social problem and I am interested in highlighting the abuse that is inflicted on women. In my opinion, regardless of whether the story is true or fabricated, it reflects the reality in our life,” Syrian Cadmus Press Executive Director Ziad Muna told The Jordan Times in a telephone interview.
In his six-page book introduction, he wrote: “When we heard about Khouri’s book on what are called honour crimes, which are being committed on daily basis in Jordan and elsewhere in the region, we did not hesitate for one second to translate and publish the book.” “There is an urgent need to be publicly vocal, and through all means, in exposing these crimes that are committed against Arab women,” Muna said.
Source: [The Jordan Times]
This book is a hoax and was pulled off the shelves by the publisher. I discussed the book and how bogus it is in a previous post. The only reason I can imagine that they would translate it is to give Jordan a bad name! Why else? Really!
Dr Ziad, if you are asking for real examples of this type of crime you should contact Rana Husseini at The Jordan Times. She’s the real source for this information, cited on numerous occasions for this book, although as best I can recall she was never directly consulted for the work — only cited based upon stories she reported for the Times. I’m not sure your interest or goals, but I suggest going to Rana for your starting point. She could direct you beyond that point I’m sure.
please stop your defamation.
if you have a “real” story about this crime, send it to me and i shall publish it.
i contacted “suad”‘s publisher, but they refused to grant me the rights.
best
dr ziad muna
Clare,
Welcome to Mental Mayhem. Glad to have you here and thank you for bringing us back on topic.
Thanks for the encouragment, Jareer. I speak Arabic well but read and write at about 2nd grade. Someday maybe I’ll get to study it! I have to say I have never seen numbers represent letters, though.
I, like Linda, haven’t had good experiences in Arab chat rooms and even some other blogs. I figured Natasha’s was safe, and enjoy all your input.
Clare, good to be back on topic. I wanted to say that most of my US friends think of Jordan as the country with the gorgeous Queen and Petra, they think of Saudi when it comes to honor killings.
It is fortunate that Jordan is one of the countries that is most open about the fact that honour killings occur and the challenges it is facing with honour killings. Hence this book being published (whether fact or fiction)will help to highlight the issues. It is very unfortunate that the book does make Jordan out to be so backward in its treatment of women when quite the reverse is true. Most people who take the time to read books of this genre are people interested in the Middle East or who have enough intelligence to realise that some of what is written is incorrect.
Oh lordy, I have tried going into an arabic chat room and second you enter they ask if your a girl, your age and if you will call them and marry them. Ill never caht in one or any chatroom again.