A Piece of White Silk
Jacqueline Rose: Honour Killing, 5 November 2009
Murder in the Name of Honour
by Rana Husseini.
Oneworld, 250 pp., £12.99, May 2009,978 1 85168 524 0 Show More
by Rana Husseini.
Oneworld, 250 pp., £12.99, May 2009,
In Honour of Fadime: Murder and Shame
by Unni Wikan, translated by Anna Paterson.
Chicago, 305 pp., £12.50, June 2008,978 0 226 89686 1 Show More
by Unni Wikan, translated by Anna Paterson.
Chicago, 305 pp., £12.50, June 2008,
“... then tried to kill himself by jumping from the balcony after slitting his own throat. According to Rana Husseini in Murder in the Name of Honour, in interviews before the trial, Abdullah first denied having anything to do with his daughter’s murder, then claimed she had committed suicide and that he had tried to kill himself out of grief. His £125,000 ... ”
