Murder In The Name Of Honor (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
On that morning I met my friend and colleague at The Jordan Times, Dima Hamdan, and together we excitedly headed to Parliament, walking quickly even though we’d left especially early in order to reserve good seats on the terrace. The white building shone in the strong sunlight and, as we passed through the security gates, I wondered whether we were about to make history. We were, but not in the way we had intended. Back in 1998 I had achieved some notoriety; I was awarded the Reebok Human Rights Award for my reporting and activism. The award generated a great deal of media coverage, putting what was for many an unwelcome spotlight on so-called honour crimes in Jordan. This fired up a public debate, which became international when ABC and CNN interviewed me for documentaries. Then, in February 1999, a Jordanian pharmacist named Basil Burgan contacted me and proposed we start a grass roots movement in Jordan, not only to raise local awareness about these brutal murders but to fight to change Jordanian law, and to demand tougher punishments for the perpetrators of these crimes.
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