Wednesday, May 4, 2011

growing up bin laden the truth about omars life with his father

GROWING UP BIN LADEN
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In 2007 Zaina and I began to write the story of my life and growing up as the son of Osama, later that year after I had told many of my childhood stories to Zaina who had patiently written every detail, we decided to try to get the story published, as we were new to being authors we felt that finding a published writer to help us find a publisher was the best way to proceed, hence we sent an email to the author Jean Sasson who had written the prince’s trilogies. Zaina continued to write the stories I was telling her, we then sent them all to jean sasson, neither I or zaina had or never have met jean sasson, but trusted her to edit the book that zaina and I were writing, spending hours a day getting all my memories in order, it was extremely tiring and so much pain remembering my past. Jean asked a few questions if she felt we had missed something or to clarify a date. Zaina and I ended up with a manuscript of over 2000 pages that had to be cut to around 360 at the publisher’s request, many very important parts of my life were cut and a multitude of flowery sentences added.  Culminating in a book that was deemed a readable romance.  The book was published in over 30 different languages yet zaina and I only ever received an English version. And the book never managed to make a best seller apparently.  Zaina and I plan to write another one day  

1 comment:

  1. Wonderful book! Every page exciting and interesting! I can't put the book down and every page is an adventure! Can't wait to see another one come out now that Omar has lost his father. May Allah heal his heart for his loss. No one's father is perfect, but none the less, that person is still their father and I can understand the love/hate relationship that we all deal with. Love the man hate the behavior. Al Hamdullilah! Love, Latifah

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