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

Update: 2022-05-25

Description

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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Sebastian Junger : Some sand sort of sprayed into the side of my face. I was like, damn, what was that? And then I heard the burst

2022-06-2901:05:16

Guillermo Galdos (part two) : Two Black Hawk helicopters appeared on top of us…spraying with bullets. I remember hearing the trees falling down. It looked like the end of the world

2022-06-2201:05:53

Guillermo Galdos (part one) : This guy was shooting his gun.... And suddenly they hit him in the head, right in the forehead. And I remember thinking, what the hell am I doing here?

2022-06-1558:10

Anas Aremeyaw Anas : We don’t care you are journalists. The rule is simple. We will kill you

2022-06-0859:45

Mais Al-Bayaa (part two) : I kept screaming “is anyone alive?” but I did not hear anyone. I genuinely thought I was dead

2022-06-0147:19

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

2022-05-2545:17

Sam Kiley : It wasn’t a question of talking your way out of it, it was all over, it was just waiting for the bullet

2022-05-1847:41

Shoaib Sharifi (part two) : Your head will be chopped after 4 o’ clock today. I felt, tasted and smelt death, and I cried

2022-05-1101:09:26

Shoaib Sharifi (part one) : My heart started pounding and the man with a dagger approaching to chop a head, and I fainted

2022-05-0448:01

Janine di Giovanni : I had been told this before that they would just assassinate me because they didn’t want any witnesses

2022-04-2758:45

Stuart Ramsay : lying on the back, just watching the whole car slowly but surely disintegrate… I said to myself I am going to die and I wonder if it's going to hurt

2022-04-2056:25

Clarissa Ward : Two thoughts…I really might die, this could be it… and what am I doing here?

2022-04-1148:21

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2022-03-2801:58

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

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

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