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Author: Ellen Creager Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1538323400 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
In the midst of political tension, what is life like for Iraqi American immigrants who have made new homes in the United States? This timely book encourages and empowers readers to understand complex issues that affect many Iraqi Americans today. They'll learn about critical events in modern history, which provide context for current events in the United States and around the world. Powerful photographs make this highly relevant topic tangible for readers. Fact boxes highlight key points and encourage questions. This informative book handles complicated topics with sensitivity, celebrates the unique and valuable ways Iraqi Americans influence contemporary American culture, and inspires understanding, making it a vital addition to any library or classroom.
Author: Ellen Creager Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1538323400 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
In the midst of political tension, what is life like for Iraqi American immigrants who have made new homes in the United States? This timely book encourages and empowers readers to understand complex issues that affect many Iraqi Americans today. They'll learn about critical events in modern history, which provide context for current events in the United States and around the world. Powerful photographs make this highly relevant topic tangible for readers. Fact boxes highlight key points and encourage questions. This informative book handles complicated topics with sensitivity, celebrates the unique and valuable ways Iraqi Americans influence contemporary American culture, and inspires understanding, making it a vital addition to any library or classroom.
Author: Aaron Glantz Publisher: Tarcher ISBN: 9781585424870 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
A reporter in Iraq shows how the U.S. squandered its early victories and goodwill among the Iraqi public and allowed the newly freed society to descend into violence and chaos. Here is a brutally honest account of a reporter who discovered how popular the U.S. presence was in Iraq-and who watched this change as the Bush administration mishandled the war, leaving us with the intractable conflict we face today.
Author: Ellen Creager Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1538322447 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
In the midst of political tension, what is life like for Iraqi American immigrants who have made new homes in the United States? This timely book encourages and empowers readers to understand complex issues that affect many Iraqi Americans today. They'll learn about critical events in modern history, which provide context for current events in the United States and around the world. Powerful photographs make this highly relevant topic tangible for readers. Fact boxes highlight key points and encourage questions. This informative book handles complicated topics with sensitivity, celebrates the unique and valuable ways Iraqi Americans influence contemporary American culture, and inspires understanding, making it a vital addition to any library or classroom.
Author: Nadia Al Sultani Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781517207724 Category : Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
A debut Memoir in the form of a series of journeys, beginning in 2001 and ending in 2014, in which the author discovers and rediscovers herself and her birthplace at dramatic intervals for both. Beginning in the wake of 9/11 - Nadia flies 'home' with her mother to find life difficult under Saddam's Iraq dictatorship and US sanctions. Her fate seems to follow like a river the charged destiny of her native land. Returning in 2006, Nadia is on a new mission- Saddam is dead, and the country has been damaged and almost destroyed by the Iran/Iraq and Gulf wars. She arrives this time, in her official professional capacity as a high ranking consultant for The United States Agency for International Development, USAID helping to restore Iraq's economy and infrastructure. Her next several journeys take on the rhythm of a professional commute as she lives and works in the Green Zone. Her final, or at least most recent visit in 2014 is the most highly charged: Nadia must return to Baghdad despite rising terrorism and immediate threat. Her reasons are deep and manifold. Her own personal life is in chaos, and she longs for the comfort of her Khalas, the only women in the world, who collectively can help heal her grief over the death of her mother. Visit: http: //www.nadiaalsultani.com
Author: Rajiv Chandrasekaran Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307265927 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • National Book Award Finalist • This "eyewitness history of the first order ... should be read by anyone who wants to understand how things went so badly wrong in Iraq” (The New York Times Book Review). The Green Zone, Baghdad, Iraq, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the crucial first year of occupation pursuing goals that had little to do with the immediate needs of a postwar nation: flat taxes instead of electricity and deregulated health care instead of emergency medical supplies. In this acclaimed firsthand account, the former Baghdad bureau chief of The Washington Post gives us an intimate portrait of life inside this Oz-like bubble, which continued unaffected by the growing mayhem outside. This is a quietly devastating tale of imperial folly, and the definitive history of those early days when things went irrevocably wrong in Iraq.
Author: Farnaz Fassihi Publisher: Public Affairs ISBN: 9781586484750 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 291
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An Iranian-American journalist chronicles the experiences of the disenfranchised, ordinary people of Iraq in a study that brings to life the very people whose goodwill the U.S. depended on for a successful operation.
Author: Weam Namou Publisher: ISBN: 9780977679010 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 178
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Artists have a story, a story that affects their pallets. In Iraqi Americans: The Lives of the Artists, Namou wanted to honor artists of Mesopotamian ancestry by giving them the opportunity to share their incredible stories themselves rather than risk having others to do it for them, as was the case with Layla Al Attar. Layla Al Attar died in 1993, along with her husband, after her house was bombed by a US missile. Iraqi news announced that she was killed since she was responsible for creating the mosaic of George Bush Sr.'s face on the steps of Al Rashid Hotel, over which Iraqis and people from all over the world walked on upon entering. Unfortunately, she is remembered more so by how she died rather than by her incredible talent and the way in which she lived her life. Worse than that, many misinterpret the play 9 Parts of Desire by Heather Raffo to be based on her life. Like Al Attar, the 16 artists in this book are not victims, but victors over their lives, following their passions and finding ways to showcase it despite any and all challenges.
Author: Haider Ala Hamoudi Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 296
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ON JULY 14, 2003, I left Kuwait on a C-130 transport plane bound for Baghdad, the city of my ancestors and a place I had not been for thirteen years. Two nations could legitimately claim me as their native son. The first was the United States, where I was born and raised. The second was Iraq.So begins this groundbreaking memoir of hope and hardship. Hamoudi spent two years living in Iraq outside the relative safety of the Green Zone working to help rebuild a country he loves.The intimate stories he shares-from the momentous day Saddam Hussein's sons were killed, to the tragic killing of hundreds of civilians on one of Shi'a Islam's most holy days, and even the joyous occasion of Hamoudi's own wedding- invite the reader to experience a new side of the country that has featured so prominently in our nightly news. Hamoudi draws on his unique perspective as the American-born son of two Iraqis to bring new insight to the question: What went wrong in Iraq?
Author: Ellen Creager
Author: Ellen Creager
Author: Aaron Glantz
Author: Ellen Creager
Author: Nadia Al Sultani
Author: Michael V. Uschan
Author: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Author: Farnaz Fassihi
Author: Weam Namou
Author: Sinan Antoon
Author: Haider Ala Hamoudi