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Scribe nets 'gripping' memoir from former Middle East correspondent Tadros
Scribe has netted Taking Sides: A Memoir About Love, War and Changing the World from former Middle East correspondent and news anchor Sherine Tadros.
Sarah Braybrooke, former publishing and managing director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Ben Fowler at Abner Stein, who has since moved, in association with Massie & McQuilkin.
Tadros is the current deputy director of advocacy and a representative to the United Nations for Amnesty International, but her memoir focuses on her career reporting on "extraordinary, world-changing" events such as the 2008 and 2014 Gaza Wars, the Arab Spring and the rise of the Islamic State group. In Taking Sides, Tadros shares her "remarkable" journey, from witnessing injustice to fighting it at the United Nations.
The memoir has been called "a call to action" by Leymah Gbowee, the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Commissioning editor Simon Wright said: "Taking Sides is a fearless memoir, written with compassion and honesty. As a journalist, Sherine faced unimaginable danger. But she shows that in today’s climate her present work, defending human rights in the corridors of power, requires courage and determination of a different kind. It’s a privilege to be publishing this inspirational book at Scribe."
