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A native of Iraq who arrived in the United States at the age of twenty, Zainab Salbiis the founder and president of Women for Women International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing women of war and civil unrest with the resources to become self-sufficient citizens and promote peace. Laurie Becklund is an award-winning Los Angeles journalist and author. This is her third collaboration. A former Los Angeles Times,/I>reporter, she wrote the first story about Salbi in 1991, when Salbi was a young woman stranded in America by the Gulf War.Salbi, Zainab is the author of 'Between Two Worlds Escape from Tyranny Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam', published 2006 under ISBN 9781592402441 and ISBN 1592402445.
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