Souad
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Souad is the pen name attributed to the author of the best-selling book Burned Alive: a Victim of the Law of Men, ostensibly a first-person account of an attempted honor killing. "Souad" is described as a Palestinian woman now living in Europe who survived an attempted murder by her brother-in-law, who doused her with gasoline and set her on fire, at the urging of her family. The book was written as a result of repressed memory therapy.
[edit] Controversy
According to the book, she forgot about the incident for two decades until it was recovered through repressed memory therapy. Thérèse Taylor, an Australian historian, has pointed out numerous medical, historical and cultural inconsistencies in the book that put its authenticity in doubt.[1] Souad claims to have survived the attempt without medical assistance despite having burns to 70 percent of her body - a medical impossibility (a press release by the publisher of the US edition increased that figure to an even less plausible 90 percent).[2][3] So far, there is no independent evidence to support the publisher's claim that the book is based on a true story or even that Souad exists at all.
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