East Of The Yarden
During of my recent trips into the middle east, I got to sit down with an “honor killing” survivor. The top photograph in this section is a woman who a few months earlier was not expected to live through an attempt on her life. She had left her husband and went to her father’s house as her husband had been physically beating and abusing her. When she arrived at her father’s home and explained what was happening in her situation, he dragged her into the street and crushed her skull with a cement block. In this stream of radical Islam it is a disgrace on the father’s name to return to the house once the wife has entered into a marriage, of course this like most marriages in Islam was a forced marriage. So in this specific incident the woman was left in the street and she was there for 14 hours bleeding the entire time onto the street. She was not expected to live, but she was lucky and did survive the experience.
The first photo is of the woman after her recovery. The following photo is of on orphan, and the remaining photos were taken throughout Jordan. The man in the office is the adviser to Kind Abdullah II of Jordan. Following this is Petra.
