Gini Diyani

When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her West Bank village as in so many others sex before marriage is considered a grave dishonor to one's family and is punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother - in - law was given the task of meting out her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes he poured gasoline over her and set her on fire. Miraculously she survived rescued by women of her village who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horribly burned over seventy percent of her body and still denounced by her family Souad was able to receive the care she needed only after the intervention of a European aid worker.