Mais Al-Bayaa (part one) : I was asleep in my bed, three bullets came just above my head and the curtain was burned

The Line of Fire with Ramita Navai

Mais Al-Bayaa is an Emmy and Robert F. Kennedy award-winning Iraqi journalist and documentary producer. Mais has covered her home country and events in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In part one of this fascinating interview, Mais explains how her family were exiled by Saddam Hussein, the horrors of both Gulf wars and how she became a journalist by accident. We also hear what it was like to live on the ‘road of death’, and what happened when her father was kidnapped by a Shia militia.

Show Notes:

• Watch Mais’s documentary Undercover with the clerics: Iraq secret sex trade Apple iTunes and also available in the US via PBS Frontline website
• Mais and Ramita worked together on Iraq’s Assassins and Iraq Uncovered and US listeners can watch it on the PBS Frontline website
• Follow Mais on Twitter @maisalbayaa

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