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Salbi's drive is rooted deeply in her own journey, which began as the privileged Iraqi daughter of Saddam Hussein's personal pilot. Salbi's mother believed strongly in her daughter's education and encouraged her not to assume the traditional female role in Iraqi society. "Do not become a prisoner," Salbi remembers her mother telling her over and over again. "Marry for love. Don't learn to clean and cook, because then that is all you will ever do." But when Salbi turned 20, her mother insisted that she accept a marriage proposal from an Iraqi man living...
Salbi's own mother-daughter story came full circle when her mother came to the U.S. in 1997 for medical treatment at the end of her life. She had lost her voice and was able to communicate only in writing--just like the women her daughter was helping. "The irony is that I had been around the world telling women to break their silence," says Salbi, "when it was really my search as well...
...parts of the North End were almost as reassuring as the things I heard and saw while walking through the neighborhood. It was like stepping back into the 1930s, into a family-run community. Maria, the owner of the eponymous pastry shop, was in the back cooking while her daughter hung out in the front after school. Everyone was on a first name basis. The old men muttered as they shuffled along the street, heads down. The town buzzed with chiacchiere—the rumor and gossip that flits between extended family. There were no Starbucks stores, but there were...
...over Arts First weekend, the production schedule is relaxed and relatively low-commitment. “It’s a pretty chill process,” Rich says. In the classic fairy tale chosen for this year’s production, a mother convinces a queen that her daughter possesses extraordinary spinning skills. The daughter, who is actually lazy and loathes spinning, is offered marriage to the prince as a reward for spinning an entire room full of flax in three days. The lazy daughter cheats, and as punishment for her deception, she is forbidden from ever spinning again...
...Josef Fritzl appears to have meticulously carried out his deed while acting like a caring father. The former electrical engineer carefully prepared what would be his daughter's and her three children's prison. The basement consisted of four windowless rooms and was equipped with a shower and a toilet, as well as a television. The electronically secured door to the prison could be opened only by entering a code number, which was known only by Fritzl. His wife, who insists that she had no idea what was going on in the house, was never allowed to set foot...