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Author : Basim Shamaon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780645153941
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (539 download)
Download or read book From Iraq to Australia: Jewels from My Journey (Arabic) written by Basim Shamaon and published by . This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basim Shamaon's autobiography in both English and Arabic.
Author : Basim Shamaon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780645153927
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (539 download)
Download or read book From Iraq To Australia: Jewels From My Journey written by Basim Shamaon and published by . This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tamara Chalabi
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061240397
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Late for Tea at the Deer Palace written by Tamara Chalabi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Tamara Chalabi, Iraq is more than a country of war and controversy; it is a place of poignant memory. For much of the twentieth century, the Chalabis were among the most influential families in Iraq. In the 1920s they were at the forefront of their country's awakening to modernity, and they played an integral part in the establishment of its monarchy. As courtiers, politicians, businessmen, rebels, merchants, and scholars, the Chalabis enjoyed vast privilege until the end of the 1950s, when they were forced to flee to the land of exile, myth, and imagination, where their beloved homeland took on the quality of a phantom country. In between came rebellions, foreign interventions, and the transformative development of oil wealth. But in 2003, after a lifetime of exile, Tamara arrived in Baghdad just ten days after the city's fall, in the company of her father, Ahmad Chalabi, a leading opposition figure against the Saddam regime. Late for Tea at the Deer Palace chronicles a daughter's return to a homeland she'd known only through stories and her own imagination. As she investigates four generations of her family's history, Tamara offers a rich portrait of Middle Eastern family life and a provocative look at a lost Iraq. The story is populated by an array of unforgettable characters, among them Tamara's great-grandfather Abdul Hussein Chalabi, who as a member of the Ottoman parliament witnessed the end of the empire in Baghdad and the birth of the modern Iraqi state at the hands of the British; her grandfather Abdul Hadi Chalabi, who became one of the wealthiest men in Iraq and had strong ties with the British during World War II; and her grandmother Bibi, a grande dame who presided over Iraq's social and political life during Baghdad's 1920s and '30s heyday as the Paris of the Middle East. At once intimate and magisterial, Late for Tea at the Deer Palace vividly captures the rich, overlooked history of a country that has been uprooted by war and a family that has persevered by never forgetting its dreams or its past.
Author : Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307265927
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Imperial Life in the Emerald City written by Rajiv Chandrasekaran and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ariel Sabar
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565129962
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)
Download or read book My Father's Paradise written by Ariel Sabar and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born. Yona's son Ariel grew up in Los Angeles, where Yona had become an esteemed professor, dedicating his career to preserving his people’s traditions. Ariel wanted nothing to do with his father’s strange immigrant heritage—until he had a son of his own. Ariel Sabar brings to life the ancient town of Zakho, discovering his family’s place in the sweeping saga of Middle-Eastern history. This powerful book is an improbable story of tolerance and hope set in what today is the very center of the world’s attention.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Harper's written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 2568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lisa Leonard
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 031015863X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Brave Love written by Lisa Leonard and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women today feel pressure to be the best wife, mom, and professional possible--often at the expense of their own identity. But what if you could experience deep peace--knowing you are loved right now, just as you are? In Brave Love, the founder of the multimillion-dollar company Lisa Leonard Designs inspires women to find themselves again amidst the noise and competing demands of real life. This paperback edition includes a new foreword written by Stephen Leonard, exclusive discussion questions for personal reflection, and a Q&A between Lisa and Steve. Brave Love is about what it means to be human, how it feels to be broken and afraid, and what happens when we dare to love deeply. Join Lisa on a journey where you will discover you are worthy and lovable just as you are. You don't have to try harder or be better. You don't have to prove yourself, and you don't have to make others okay. In this freedom you will find more peace and more joy. Most importantly, you will learn that as you stop trying to be everything to everyone, you will love others better. Lisa Leonard shares her story of finding truth and wholeness in the midst of life's competing demands. When she said her marriage vows, she was determined to be the best wife she could be. When her first son was born with a severe disability, Lisa promised herself she would always be the mother he needed. When she began her jewelry business, Lisa committed to giving it her all. Over the years, the exhaustion of trying to be the perfect wife, mother, and businesswoman took its toll. Lisa knew it wasn't working. She wanted to change things, but how? Everyone depended on her. So she kept going, kept pushing, kept trying to prove she could do it all. Until one evening, in tears and desperation, Lisa realized that she could no longer be everything to everyone. Somewhere along the way, she had lost herself. In Brave Love, Lisa shares her story of losing--and finding--her own voice in the clamor of family, career, and internal pressure to prove herself.
Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 : 9780452284982
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (849 download)
Download or read book A Long Short War written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Plume. This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most respected and controversial liberal thinkers makes the case for war in Iraq. Written in his trademark contrarian voice, Untitled on Iraq is comprised of Hitchens' essays on the justification for war in Iraq and other related issues written for Slate.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and more, as well as 25% new material on the war
Author : Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385014856
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Guests of the Sheik written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful account of one woman's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. "A most enjoyable book abouut [Muslim women]—simple, dignified, human, colorful, sad and humble as the life they lead." —Muhsin Mahdi, Jewett Professor of Arabic Literature, Harvard Unversity. A wonderful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study that offers a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.
Author : Peter Van Buren
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429995238
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book We Meant Well written by Peter Van Buren and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One diplomat's darkly humorous and ultimately scathing assault on just about everything the military and State Department have done—or tried to do—since the invasion of Iraq. The title says it all."—The New York Times A work of "scathing, gallows humor" (The Boston Globe), We Meant Well is a tragicomic voyage of ineptitude and corruption that leaves its writer—and readers—appalled and disillusioned, but wiser. Charged with rebuilding Iraq, would you spend taxpayer money on a sports mural in Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhood to promote reconciliation through art? How about an isolated milk factory that cannot get its milk to market? Or a pastry class training women to open cafés on bombed-out streets that lack water and electricity? As Peter Van Buren shows, we bought all these projects and more in the most expensive hearts-and-minds campaign since the Marshall Plan. We Meant Well is his eyewitness account of the civilian side of the surge—that surreal and bollixed attempt to defeat terrorism and win over Iraqis by reconstructing the world we had just destroyed. Leading a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team on its quixotic mission, Van Buren details, with laser-like irony, his yearlong encounter with pointless projects, bureaucratic fumbling, overwhelmed soldiers, and oblivious administrators secluded in the world's largest embassy, who fail to realize that you can't rebuild a country without first picking up the trash.
Author : Natalie Sudman
Publisher : Ozark Mountain Publishing
ISBN 13 : 188694024X
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Application of Impossible Things - My Near Death Experience in Iraq written by Natalie Sudman and published by Ozark Mountain Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natalie’s near death experience when her truck was hit with a roadside bomb in Iraq. She recalls the entire spirit side experience as they repair her body so she could live.
Author : Melanie Phillips
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594031975
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Londonistan written by Melanie Phillips and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how the erosion of traditional British identity and the appeasement of radical Islamic groups has encouraged the growth of Islamic extremism in Great Britain and made London a hub for terrorist recruitment and activity in Europe.
Author : Nirmala Nataraj
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452175098
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Stargazing written by Nirmala Nataraj and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of images of the night sky, the perfect gift for stargazers, space lovers, science geeks, photography lovers, and NASA fans. This collection of photographs illuminates the darkness of space in a whole new way. Images from the archives of NASA reveal the night sky’s most extraordinary phenomena, from the radiant aurora borealis to awe-inspiring lunar eclipses. Each breathtaking photo is paired with an informative caption about the scientific phenomena it reveals and the technology used to capture it. Featuring a preface by author and Emmy award-nominated TV host Bill Nye, this ebook will rekindle the wonder of looking up at the stars. “[A] gorgeous photographic tour of space . . . Remarkable.”—Publishers Weekly on The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA by Nirmala Nataraj
Author : Anthony Shadid
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547134665
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (471 download)
Download or read book House of Stone written by Anthony Shadid and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and institutions.
Author : Briton Hadden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Time written by Briton Hadden and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reels for 1973- include Time index, 1973-
Author : Queen Noor
Publisher : Orion Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780753817568
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Leap of Faith written by Queen Noor and published by Orion Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic and inspiring story of one woman's incredible journey into the heart of a man and his nation. Born into a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Halaby was a strongly independent young woman. After studying architecture at Princeton, her work on projects in the Middle East gave her a profound understanding both of the links between the environment and social problems, and also of the tumultuous history of the Arab nations. Then, in 1974, her life took a very different turn, when her father introduced her to the world's most eligible bachelor, King Hussein of Jordan. After a whirlwind romance, she became Noor Al Hussein, Queen of Jordan. With eloquence and honesty, Queen Noor speaks of the obstacles she faced as a young bride and of her successful struggle to create a role for herself as a humanitarian activist. She tells of her heartbreaking miscarriage and the births of her four children, along with her continuing support for King Hussein's campaign to bring peace to the Arab nations. But most of all this is a love story - an honest and engaging portrait of a truly remarkable woman and the man she married.
Author : Avi Melamed
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 9781634505727
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Inside the Middle East written by Avi Melamed and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed Israeli intelligence analyst Avi Melamed has spent more than thirty years interpreting Middle East affairs. His long-awaited Inside the Middle East challenges widely-accepted perceptions and provides a gripping and uniquely enlightening guide to make sense of the events unfolding in the region—to answer how the Arab world got to this point, what is currently happening, what the ramifications will be, how they will affect Israel, and what actions must immediately be undertaken, including how Western leaders need to respond. Melamed considers all the major power players in the Middle East, explains the underlying issues, and creates a three-dimensional picture, an illustration that connects the dots and provides a fascinating roadmap. He elucidates developments such as the Arab Spring, the downfall of the Muslim Brotherhood, the rise of ISIS, the epic Sunni-Shiite animosity, the essence of the war in Syria, the role of the Caliphate and Jihad, and the looming nuclear arms race. He also provides a rare opportunity to journey into the psyche of Arab society. Look through the lens of its leaders and its most ruthless terrorists. See what makes them tick and what they want. Discover how they can be overtaken. This unparalleled volume is a milestone in our understanding of the Middle East. It is the untold story of the struggles that will shape the region, and the world, for decades to come, and a groundbreaking guide that will shake you to the core, force you to reevalute your outlook, and give you tips to navigate the future. From author Avi Melamed: The conflicts in the Middle East grow more confusing and dangerous every day. In my encounters with thousands of people from across the world - from global leaders to high school students - I know there is deep and intense thirst for knowledge because today understanding the Middle East is not optional – it’s mandatory. My new book, Inside the Middle East: Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth is based on my decades of advisory, counterterrorism, education, and intelligence – positions - as well as my intimate connections throughout the Arab world. The book also provides the building blocks and database to understand the contemporary Middle East, offers a unique insight into the Arab world, and is “a GPS to help you navigate the dramatically changing Middle East.” In the book, I also offer an out of the box idea that could lead to a positive breakthrough in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
