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Title: Gaddafi's Harem
Subtitle: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya
Author: Annick Cojean
Narrator: Laura Raynor Sauriat
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-28-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
Soraya was just 15, a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honor of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, the "Guide", on a visit he was making to her school the following week. This one meeting, a presentation of flowers, a pat on the head from Gaddafi, changed Sorayas life forever. Soon afterwards, she was summoned to Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafis palatial compound near Tripoli, where she joined a number of young women who were violently abused, raped and degraded by Gaddafi. Heartwrenchingly tragic but ultimately redemptive, Sorayas story is the first one of many that are just now beginning to be heard. But sex and rape remain the highest taboo in Libya, and women like Soraya (whose identity is protected by a pseudonym here) risk being disowned or even killed by their dishonored family members. In Gaddafis Harem, an instant best seller on publication in France, where it has already sold more than 100,000 copies in hardcover, Le Monde special correspondent Annick Cojean gives a voice to Sorayas story, and supplements her investigation into Gaddafis abuses of power through interviews with people who knew Soraya, as well as with other women who were abused by Gaddafi.
