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Don't shoot!
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In the book One Thousand and One Nights. Scheherazade has to tells stories in order to survive. She tells such interesting and compelling stories that Schehrayar can’t help but let her live one more night and then another and then another. After a thousand and one nights, Schehrayar gets attached and forgets his murderous desire. By salvaging her own life with her stories, Scheherazade in turn liberates Schehrayar’s heart from its darkness.
As war and terrorism rage, so grows the antagonism between the Middle East and the West. People are seeking insights into the dark heart of this spiral of violence. This blog is the personal journey of a Czech-born Iraqi woman who walks the tightrope between East and West. The narrative is an unconventional, funny and often moving voyage of uncovering, discovering and discarding of identity. It tells stories about undoing childhood conditioning, understanding the past, and telling new stories in order to embrace the future. By relating these tales of transformation, ihath hopes the reader will grow attached and come to understand the Middle East’s many contradictions and failings and there are many.
King Schehrayar started as a loving young husband, until one day he came home to his palace to find his wife with another man. The hurt was deep. In a rage, he kills his wife. He declares a war on women. He marries frequently, only to murder the bride the morning following the wedding night; therefore ensuring that no woman would ever hurt him again. His heart is safely sealed behind a security barrier that no feminine intrusion could breach. The mother of all sex battles rages until he encounters the wise and enchanting Scheherazade. On the wedding night she tells him a story; but right at the crucial point of the story she starts sighing and tells him that she is tired and goes to sleep. The next morning, Schehrayar decides to let her live one more day so that he could hear the end of the story. Scheherazade weaves a tapestry of stories inside stories but each night stops at a suspenseful point in order to save her live one more night.
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