No safe place : murdered by our father
Mahmod, Bekhal2022
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Bekhal Mahmod was one of six siblings from a Sunni Muslim family in Iraqi Kurdistan who sought a new life as asylum seekers and arrived in London in 1998. When Bekhal's father tried to force her into an arranged marriage at 15, she ran away. This caused her father to 'lose respect' within the Kurdish community and Bekhal became the target of an honour killing and her younger sisters Banaz and Payzee were quickly married off to restore the family's reputation. When Banaz left her husband, claiming he'd beaten and raped her, Mahmod decided this 'shame' to the family meant Banaz must die. Within weeks, she had vanished. Her body was finally discovered, crammed into a suitcase and buried in a garden in Birmingham. Banaz, age 20, had been raped and killed in a sickening plot orchestrated by her father and uncle.
Main title:
No safe place : murdered by our father / Bekhal Mahmod with Dr Hannana Siddiqui.
Author:
Mahmod, Bekhal, authorSiddiqui, Hannana, author
Imprint:
London : Ad Lib, 2022.
Collation:
292 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
TV tie-in.
ISBN:
9781913543051 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
362.88293362.8829 920 MAHB/MAHMMAH362.8829362.88293092362.882 MAHM362.8829 MAHB MAH MAHB-MAHB
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2290869
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