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Khadama: A Story of Survival and Resistance
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 7 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The tea was still hot when it hit Sumaiya's skin.
Thirty-six hours into her new job, she understood: the villa wasn't opportunity. It was a trap.
She'd left Kampala with a hospitality degree and desperate hope-Hassan's university fees, Ibrahim's surgery, Yusuf's wedding depended on the salary her Emirati employers promised. She thought being Muslim would create solidarity. That education was armor. That her carefully pinned hijab would earn respect.
She was wrong about everything.
When Madam Fatima's jealousy manifests as scalding punishment, when her passport disappears, when leaving becomes criminal and staying becomes survival, Sumaiya discovers what domestic workers across Gulf states already know: the kafala system doesn't protect you-it erases you by law.
But in cramped apartments where every doorbell triggers terror, in networks built from whispered solidarity, women resist. They document. They hide each other. They refuse to disappear.
Some make it home. Some don't. All pay a price the world refuses to calculate.
Khadama is the story of those who maintain luxury they'll never touch, whose silence is required and whose resistance rewrites the rules.
A novel that refuses to look away.
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