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Fu*ked Up in Dubai!: One determined Welsh mother’s real-life nightmare – a memoir about love, sex, drugs and life in a Dubai jail
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR LIFE IS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN IN A HEARTBEAT?
Born and bred in a South Wales mining valley, with a close-knit and loving family, happy-go-lucky Emily Brook thrived academically and built a successful career lecturing and teaching all over the world.
Back home in Wales and still reeling from a traumatic and failed relationship, she secured a job in the Middle East. Living as a single mother in Qatar amongst a community of her co-workers started out wonderful. New friends, plenty of sunshine, a well-paid job that she loved... and a new romance with a Muslim Qatari.
But then life dealt her a cruel blow and she found herself incarcerated in a Dubai jail.
Follow her explosive real-life story as she faces the battle of her life, a rollercoaster legal case, dire living conditions, and an unshakeable determination to be reunited with her family and daughter at all costs.
***Use the ‘Look Inside’ feature now to sample the opening pages of this emotional, moving memoir, especially if you’re about to start working in the Middle East.***
Back home in Wales and still reeling from a traumatic and failed relationship, she secured a job in the Middle East. Living as a single mother in Qatar amongst a community of her co-workers started out wonderful. New friends, plenty of sunshine, a well-paid job that she loved... and a new romance with a Muslim Qatari.
But then life dealt her a cruel blow and she found herself incarcerated in a Dubai jail.
Follow her explosive real-life story as she faces the battle of her life, a rollercoaster legal case, dire living conditions, and an unshakeable determination to be reunited with her family and daughter at all costs.
***Use the ‘Look Inside’ feature now to sample the opening pages of this emotional, moving memoir, especially if you’re about to start working in the Middle East.***
432 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 18, 2022
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August 13, 2025
This book was moving.
Fantastic insight into a corrupt Middle Eastern justice system; Sharia law is alive and well in many Muslim countries. This book serves as a warning that what happened to the author could have happened to anyone.
Fantastic insight into a corrupt Middle Eastern justice system; Sharia law is alive and well in many Muslim countries. This book serves as a warning that what happened to the author could have happened to anyone.
June 27, 2025
important reading
A hard book to read but a very important sharing of a horrendous life experience. I always fancied seeing the Middle East but following personal experience and hearing about how messed up the justice is over there, I will never risk visiting there. Appalling abuse of even basic human rights.
A hard book to read but a very important sharing of a horrendous life experience. I always fancied seeing the Middle East but following personal experience and hearing about how messed up the justice is over there, I will never risk visiting there. Appalling abuse of even basic human rights.
January 29, 2026
Don’t date an Arab !!!! ( unless you are also one )
Very scary read. This lady author , who was very well educated put herself in a very dangerous position by being involved with an Arabian crook . She suffered horrendous confinement in a prison for doing nothing illegal . She just didn’t use her common sense & befriended a very dangerous Arabian .
Very scary read. This lady author , who was very well educated put herself in a very dangerous position by being involved with an Arabian crook . She suffered horrendous confinement in a prison for doing nothing illegal . She just didn’t use her common sense & befriended a very dangerous Arabian .
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