Burned Alive

Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men is a best-selling book, ostensibly a first-person account of an attempted honor killing. The author, Souad, is described as a Palestinian woman now living in Europe who survived an attempted murder by her brother-in-law, who doused her with gasoline and set her on fire, at the urging of her family. The book was written as a result of repressed memory therapy, a scientifically discredited form of psychotherapy. Souad was saved by a Swiss NGO named Terre des Hommes, in collaboration of the Red Cross. She stayed in a hospital several months where she learned French, the language in which she wrote the book Brûlée vive. When the book was published in 2003, she made several appearances on the French National TV.