The Line of Fire with Ramita Navai

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

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Episode notes

The second part of Ramita’s interview with Emmy and Robert F. Kennedy award-winning Iraqi journalist and documentary producer Mais Al-Bayaa.

 

After surviving a targeted suicide bombing, Mais recounts how she discovered she was on a militia hit list, finally prompting her to leave Iraq. 

 

She also describes why, despite fleeing her motherland, she decided to return, and how the birth of her daughter has given her the courage to continue reporting on dangerous stories.  

 

Show Notes:

• Watch Mais’s documentary Undercover with the clerics: Iraq secret sex trade BBC2 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