Murder in the Name of Honor (32 page)

Special thanks and appreciation go to members of the Jordanian National Committee to Eliminate So-Called Honour Crimes for being the first collective in Jordan to raise the issue of so-called honour crimes publicly and make a real stand on this issue.

Other Jordanian women's groups which played a vital role in supporting the cause and recognizing my efforts include the Jordanian Women's Union, the Jordanian National Commission for Women, Sisterhood Is Global Institute, Mizan Law Group, Princess Basma's Women Resource Centre, Zarqa Family Guidance Centre, Arab Women Organization of Jordan,
JO
magazine, Ammannet and the Arab Women Media Center. Much appreciation should be expressed to the Rotary Clubs, UN agencies, the diplomatic missions and embassies in Jordan for their support for and appreciation of my work and the cause in general.

I am indebted to Equality Now in the US and the UK, its director Jessica Neuwirth and its staff Jackie Hunt, Amanda Sullivan and Taina Bien-Aime, for offering all kinds of support to me throughout my career and for making a strong and positive impact on the lives of women worldwide.

Other international bodies, media outlets and individuals include Amnesty International, Freedom House, the Nobel Women's Initiative, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Carter Centre,
Marie Claire
magazine, Spanish city of l'Hospitalet,
Ms
magazine, Women's News, RAND Corporation, Feminist Majority Foundation, Terre de Femmes, Kvinnoforum, Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organization, Gloria Steinem, Diana Nammi, Asma Jahangir, Mahnaz Afkhami, Rita Henley Jensen, Commanders Andy Baker and Brent Hyatt of Scotland Yard, Gudrun Sidrassi-Harth, Nanci Rafai, Paul Peters, Lesley Carson, Brigitte Schmid, Nicole Choueiry, Isis Nuseir, LaShawn Jefferson, Mariana Vos and Alasdair Soussi.

Special thanks go to Kerry Kennedy for including me in her important project on human rights activists in the world, ‘Speak Truth To Power', and the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation. My gratitude also goes to the following people who are associated with the project: Nan Richardson, Ariel Dorfman and Dr Ghada Karam.

I would also like to thank the former Secretary General of the Jordanian National Commission for Women, Dr Amal Sabbagh, for her tireless efforts; we went through a lot together for over a year to expose the false story of Norma Khouri in her hoax novel
Forbidden Love
[
Honor Lost
]. I would also like to thank the former literary editor of the
Sydney Morning Herald
, Malcolm Knox, who worked professionally and objectively in exposing Khouri's story as fake in Australia. I also thank Mustafa Khreishan, Dr Ihab Shalbak and Yasmine Bahrani for their help with this story. Special thanks go to the Australian film producer and director, Anna Broinowski, who travelled the globe, including a trip to Jordan, for her documentary
Forbidden Lie$
and conveyed an objective message to western viewers by portraying the real lives of Muslims and Arabs.

I also need to acknowledge one of the first organizations that recognized, supported and awarded me for my work: the Reebok Human Rights Foundation. The prestigious Reebok Human Rights Award, given to me in 1998, enabled me to achieve so much. It was the turning point of my career and helped me investigate, learn and understand the so-called honour crime issue from a human rights perspective. It was also the starting point for this book.

My deepest appreciation also goes to the Embassy of the Netherlands in Jordan and Second Secretary Bianca Zylfiu-Niccolson for providing me with financial support in 2006 that enabled me to finish my book.

My love goes out to my late grandmother, Wajiha Saifi, whose warmth and kindness engulfed me endlessly, and to my uncles Yacoub Husseini, the late Sameh Saifi and his wife Mukaram Malas, my late aunt May Midani and my aunts Lamis Adem, Umayya Sigilmassi and Ikram Husseini. My thanks go to my cousins who constantly expressed pride in their cousin and her accomplishments, including Reem Saifi, her husband Khalid
Murad and their children Lara, Aya and Sameh, Samar Saifi, her husband Jamal Budeiri and their children Sameh and Abdul Karim, Widad ‘Dolly' and Muhanad Midani, Rasha, Samar, Louie and Udai Husseini and Ahmad Budeiri.

Last but not least, my gratitude goes to my dearest lovely mother, Randa Saifi-Husseini, who always wanted what is best for me and gave me the strength to remain a positive person throughout my career. I thank my brother, Moutaz Husseini, for being one of my greatest advocates, along with his wife, Sura Madani.

Note:
Names appearing in italics denote victims and their killers. The prefix ‘Al-' is ignored in the alphabetical ordering of names.

Aali, Jamiluddin
109

Abbas, Amir
180

Abdel-Qader, Ali
(killer)
128–9

Abdel-Qader, Hassan
(killer)
128

Abdel-Qader, Haydar
(killer)
128

Abdel-Qader, Rand
(victim)
128–9

Abdel-Rahim, Marzouk Ahmed
(killer)
147

Abdo, Maha
152–3

Abdul Aziz, Samir
32

Abdullah II of Jordan
35
,
38–9
,
51
,
60
,
64
,
66
,
70

Abdullat, Yassin
86

Abedin, Humayra
(victim)
176

Abu Ayyash, Maha
32
,
75

Abu Fares, Mohammad
79

Abu Hassan, Reem
79

Abu al-Hosn, Yumun
136

Abu Mariam, Sultan
32
,
43
,
56

Abu Odeh, Adnan
57–8
,
70

Abu Rayyan, Muna
32

Abu Risheh, Zuleikha
42

accidents, killings disguised as
82–3
,
102
,
127
,
146

Action Alert
208–9

Adas, Widad
20

adultery:

blamed on women
41
,
51
,
52

penalty for
33
,
37
,
51
,
57–8
,
76
,
136
,
139
,
149
,
154

rape seen as
112

and Sharia law
69–70
,
72–3

and stoning
131–2

Al-Afaf Islamic Society
53

Afgani, Hana
27

Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC)
115–16

Afghanistan, honour crimes in
114–16

Aftonbladet
(newspaper)
187

Afzal, Nazir
166

Al Ahram Weekly
148–9

Ahsan, Aitzaz
106
,
109

Al-Ajely, Ziyad Khalaf
125

Al-Ajial
71

Akayleh, Abdullah
67

Alaa, Hamida
130

Alaa, Hassan
130

Alami, Nisreen
94

Al Alawi, Irfan
142

Algamo, Kickis Aahre
192

Ali, Mohammad
180

Ali, Prince
60–7
,
70
,
71
,
73–4
,
87

Ali Rauf, Shawbo
(victim)
129
,
167–8

Allak, Semse
(victim)
145

Allam, Abeer
148–9

Amal Organization for Women
120

Ameen, Jwan
126

Amiry, Arwa
84

Amman, and honour killings
1–7

Amneh
(victim)
45–7
,
49–50

Amnesty International
131

Annan, Kofi
214

Arab Al-Yawm
(newspaper)
41
,
53
,
58–9

Arab Times
144

Arabiat, Abdul Latif
52

Ardalan, Parvin
132–3

Arshad, Rahan
(killer)
174–5

Article 98 (Jordan)
33–4
,
49
,
51
,
68
,
75
,
77–8
,
87
,
181
,
212
,
215

Article 340 (Jordan)
33–8
,
41
,
51–9
,
62–6
,
68–9
,
71–6

amendment
77–9
,
87

Article 341 (Jordan)
54

Asha, Inam
14

Asian Human Rights Commission
112

Al-Assad, Bashar
135

Association for Women's Role Development (Syria)
136

Asuda (women's rights NGO)
123

Aswad, Duaa Khalil
(victim)
117–22

Athwal, Bachan
168–70

Athwal, Pavan
170–1

Athwal, Sukhdave
169–70

Athwal, Surjit
(victim)
168–70

Atroshi, Abdulmajid
(killer)
192

Atroshi, Pela
(victim)
192

Atroshi, Shivan
(killer)
192

Australia:

and honour crimes
192

impact of Khouri's book
89–90
,
93
,
94–9

The Australian
192

Awad, Mohamed
148–9

Ayed, Samir
(killer)
68

Al-Azhar Ifta Council
69–70

Aziz, Youssif Mohamed
123–4

Babker, Dashti
80

Al Badeel
152–3

Bahrani, Yasmine
90
,
93

Baker, Andy
161–2

Bakker, Hilde
189

Bakr, Faeq Ameen
125

Baladna internet company
56

Bam
(victim)
193–5

Bangladesh:

and forced marriages
176

honour crimes in
104
,
156

Bani Hani, Ahmad
84

Bani Hani, Mohammad
72

Barzani, Nechirvan
124

Basil, Roaa
122
,
124

Basma bint Talal, Princess
40

Begard
(victim)
122

Begum, Shanaz
(victim)
171

beheading of women, in Iraq
117
,
121
,
127–8

Belloque, Juliana
155

Bilbeisi, Bashir
42

Bilour, Ilyas
109

Birch, Philip
204

Bjorling, Bam
186–7

Blair, Sir Ian
161

Blair, Tony
170

bounty hunters
161
,
175

Brazil:

honour crimes in
104
,
154–6

Penal Code
154–5

Burgan, Basil
31–2
,
38

burning
see
immolation

Bush, George W.
117
,
125

Cahill, Robert
208

campaign against honour crimes Jordan)
xii
,
29–30
,
31–44
,
68–77

opposition to
51–4
,
63
,
68–9

and Parliament
31–2
,
37–8
,
40
,
52–3
,
69–71
,
74–6
,
87

petition
32–8
,
41–4
,
51
,
53–4
,
56–8
,
76

royal support for
35
,
38–40
,
51
,
58
,
60–7
,
71
,
73–4

setbacks
89–100

support for
52
,
54–5
,
69–71
,
86

and western pressure
37–8
,
52–3
,
72–4
,
76
,
94

Canada, honour killings in
213

Canberra Times
99

Centre for Egyptian Women's Legal Assistance (CEWLA)
148
,
150

Chander, Subhash
(killer)
209

Child Protection Services (UK)
179–80

children:

and forced marriage
117
,
210–11
,
215

involved in honour crimes
26
,
146
,
185

as victims of honour killings
172–5
,
209

China, honour crimes in
217–18

contract killings
161
,
175
,
212–13

Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
35
,
149

Cook, Robin
169–70

Council of Europe
200–1

Cox, Steve
173–4

Craddick, Bob
205

Criminal Court (Jordan)
68
,
81
,
86

Crossing Over
(film)
133

Curtius, Mary
152–3

Dabis, Ruba
32

Dahl, Muna
189–90

Daily Telegraph
141

Darvishpour, Mehrdad
188

Darwazeh, Muna
32

Deaver, Keith
211

discrimination, gender
214–15

in Afghanistan
115

in Brazil
154–5

in Egypt
149–50

in Jordan
x
,
xiv
,
32
,
34–7
,
87
,
103

in Lebanon
140

in Palestine
153

divorce
82