Jacky Trevane

Jacky Trevane is the pseudonym of Jennifer Anne, a British woman who ran away from her Egyptian husband in 1992. [El Fagr, April 28, 2008, Arab-West Report [http://arabwestreport.info presented a review of this article, AWR, 2008, week 18, art. 11] ] With the help of ghostwriter Clifford Thurlow she published the book "Fatwa: Living with a Death Threat", describing her version of her life with her Egyptian Muslim husband Maged (in her book called Omar). Jacky was twenty-three when she arrived in Egypt for a holiday with her boyfriend, Dave. Separated from Dave in a bustling street, she fell and twisted her ankle, only to be swept up by a young handsome, chivalrous Egyptian. It was, she says in her book, love at first sight. She married him, converted to Islam and lived with him in a poor suburb of Cairo. The couple got two daughters. Their marriage, however, turned sour and Jennifer decided to return back to England. She says a fatwa was issued against her and is thus "living in the shadow of a death threat." [ [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fatwa-Living-Threat-Jacky-Trevane/dp/0340862424 Fatwa Living Threat Jacky Trevane Book] ] The Egyptian publication Al-Fajr spoke with Jennifer's husband, providing a different story and denying many of the claims Jennifer made. [El Fagr, April 28, 2008, Arab-West Report, [http://arabwestreport.info/AWR/article_details.php?article_id=19870&ayear=2008&aweek=18&article_title=&article_t_date=&article_p_date=&article_p_week=&t=f&char=0 A British woman kidnaps her daughter and leaves her Egyptian husband] ]

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