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Book Synopsis Life as an Iraqi American by : Ellen Creager
Download or read book Life as an Iraqi American written by Ellen Creager and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Baghdad Stories by : Nadia Al Sultani
Download or read book Baghdad Stories written by Nadia Al Sultani and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis How America Lost Iraq by : Aaron Glantz
Download or read book How America Lost Iraq written by Aaron Glantz and published by Tarcher. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Life of an American Soldier in Iraq by : Michael V. Uschan
Download or read book Life of an American Soldier in Iraq written by Michael V. Uschan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the lives of American soldiers at the onset of war with Iraq, their feelings, living conditions, safety concerns, and more.
Book Synopsis Imperial Life in the Emerald City by : Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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.
Book Synopsis Life as an Iraqi American by : Ellen Creager
Download or read book Life as an Iraqi American written by Ellen Creager and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Lives of the Artists by : Weam Namou
Download or read book The Lives of the Artists written by Weam Namou and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Betrayed written by George Packer and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama / 5m, 6f Millions of Iraqis, spanning the country's religious and ethnic spectrum, welcomed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. But the mostly young men and women who embraced America's project so enthusiastically that they were prepared to risk their lives for it by aiding the U.S. forces constitute a small minority. On a cold, wet night in January 2007, George Packer met two such Iraqi men in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel, in central Baghdad to hear their story and those of other Iraqis
Download or read book Thura's Diary written by Thura Al-Windawi and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-year-old Thura al-Windawi traces the days leading up to the bombings in Iraq, the war, and the chaos that followed, describing her life and the reality of war for Iraqi families.
Book Synopsis Howling in Mesopotamia by : Haider Ala Hamoudi
Download or read book Howling in Mesopotamia written by Haider Ala Hamoudi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
Download or read book Baghdad Burning written by Riverbend and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the fall of Bagdad, women’s voices have been largely erased, but four months after Saddam Hussein’s statue fell, a 24 year-old woman from Baghdad began blogging. In 2003, a twenty-four-year-old woman from Baghdad began blogging about life in the city under the pseudonym Riverbend. Her passion, honesty, and wry idiomatic English made her work a vital contribution to our understanding of post-war Iraq—and won her a large following. Baghdad Burning is a quotidian chronicle of Riverbend’s life with her family between April 2003 and September of 2004. She describes rolling blackouts, intermittent water access, daily explosions, gas shortages and travel restrictions. She also expresses a strong stance against the interim government, the Bush administration, and Islamic fundamentalists like Al Sadr and his followers. Her book “offers quick takes on events as they occur, from a perspective too often overlooked, ignored or suppressed” (Publishers Weekly). “Riverbend is bright and opinionated, true, but like all voices of dissent worth remembering, she provides an urgent reminder that, whichever governments we struggle under, we are all the same.” —Booklist “Feisty and learned: first-rate reading for any American who suspects that Fox News may not be telling the whole story.” —Kirkus
Book Synopsis Sisters in War by : Christina Asquith
Download or read book Sisters in War written by Christina Asquith and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women’s lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women’s rights activist and a U.S. soldier, journalist Christina Asquith explores one of the great untold sagas of the Iraq war: the attempt to bring women’s rights to Iraq, and the consequences for all those involved. On the heels of the invasion, twenty-two-year-old Zia accepts a job inside the U.S. headquarters in Baghdad, trusting that democracy will shield her burgeoning romance with an American contractor from the disapproval of her fellow Iraqis. But as resistance to the U.S. occupation intensifies, Zia and her sister, Nunu, a university student, are targeted by Islamic insurgents and find themselves trapped between their hopes for a new country and the violent reality of a misguided war. Asquith sets their struggle against the broader U.S. efforts to bring women’s rights to Iraq, weaving the sisters’ story with those of Manal, a Palestinian American women’s rights activist, and Heather, a U.S. army reservist, who work together to found Iraq’s first women’s center. After one of their female colleagues is gunned down on a highway, Manal and Heather must decide whether they can keep fighting for Iraqi women if it means risking their own lives. In Sisters in War, Christina Asquith introduces the reader to four women who dare to stand up for their rights in the most desperate circumstances. With compassion and grace, she vividly reveals the plight of women living and serving in Iraq and offers us a vision of how women’s rights and Islam might be reconciled.
Book Synopsis Baghdad Underground Railroad by : Steve Miska
Download or read book Baghdad Underground Railroad written by Steve Miska and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the war's worst fighting in 2006 and 2007, a handful of Iraqi interpreters put their lives on the line to help American troops. Families threatened, a bounty on their heads, ignored by the powers that be, they faced execution as collaborators with the enemy if they remained in their homeland. A Task Force Commander decides a promise made should be a promise kept. After the murders of several Iraqi allies, Lt. Col Steve Miska decides to slice through the bureaucratic red tape to get interpreters to safety. His team creates the Baghdad Underground Railroad to get the "terps" and other allies out of the country to Jordan for their Embassy interviews. Soldiers also tap their own families in the United States to serve as sponsors to house and assist the new immigrants. For the Iraqis, they face the struggle of adapting to a culture vastly different from their own. One of them even joins the U.S. Army and returns to Iraq as an American soldier. In this compelling memoir that illustrates humanity and compassion in the midst of war, Steve Miska highlights the plight of local allies, who are essential to the American cause in foreign wars but are often left behind. He also offers an insider's look at the complex and frustrating political reality of Iraq facing U.S. commanders and policymakers following the downfall of Saddam Hussein.
Download or read book To Start a War written by Robert Draper and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Essential . . . one for the ages . . . a must read for all who care about presidential power.” —The Washington Post “Authoritative . . . The most comprehensive account yet of that smoldering wreck of foreign policy, one that haunts us today.” —LA Times One of BookPage's Best Books of 2020 To Start a War paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process that was fatally compromised by a combination of post-9/11 fear and paranoia, rank naïveté, craven groupthink, and a set of actors with idées fixes who gamed the process relentlessly. Everything was believed; nothing was true. Robert Draper’s fair-mindedness and deep understanding of the principal actors suffuse his account, as does a storytelling genius that is close to sorcery. There are no cheap shots here, which makes the ultimate conclusion all the more damning. In the spirit of Barbara W. Tuchman’s The Guns of August and Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat, To Start A War will stand as the definitive account of a collective scurrying for evidence that would prove to be not just dubious but entirely false—evidence that was then used to justify a verdict that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows no signs of ebbing.
Book Synopsis Thank You America by : Melvin Mathew Thomas
Download or read book Thank You America written by Melvin Mathew Thomas and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thank You America is the real life story of Dr. Melvin Thomas who was just eight years old when Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2nd 1990. In this book Melvin Thomas talks in depth of how one morning his family woke up to find their perfect world of existence shattered by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and their hope for a good future disappearing from the horizon of life . This book records in vivid details the horrors of the Iraqi invasion, the life of war victims and the emotional and financial struggles the average expatriate family went through during the war. In the writing of Thank You America the author firmly believes that every reader will get a true picture of what it felt to be a victim of the vicious dictator Saddam Hussein and the inexpressible gratitude every single war victim felt for being liberated by the coalition forces led by the United States of America. Thank You America is a book of faith, hope and love that proves without a shadow of doubt that people from around the world respect and believe in the United States of America
Download or read book Shoot an Iraqi written by Wafaa Bilal and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wafaa Bilal's childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the United States to become a professor and a successful artist, but when his brother was killed by an unmanned U.S. Predator drone, he decided to use his art to confront those in the comfort zone with the realities of life in a conflict zone. His response was “Domestic Tension,” an unsettling interactive performance piece: for one month, Bilal lived alone in a prison cell-sized room in the line of fire of a remote-controlled paintball gun and a camera that connected him to Internet viewers around the world. Visitors to the gallery and a virtual audience that grew by the thousands could shoot at him twenty-four hours a day. The project received overwhelming worldwide attention and spawned provocative online debates; ultimately, Bilal was named Chicago Tribune’s Artist of the Year. Structured in two parallel narratives, the story of Bilal’s life journey and his “Domestic Tension” experience, Shoot an Iraqi, is for anyone who seeks insight into the current conflict in Iraq and for those fascinated by interactive art technologies and the ever-expanding world of online gaming. Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal has exhibited his art worldwide, and traveled and lectured extensively to inform audiences of the situation of the Iraqi people, and the importance of peaceful conflict resolution. Bilal's 2007 dynamic installation "Domestic Tension" gained global recognition, being named Artist of the Year by the Chicago Tribune. Bilal has held exhibitions in Baghdad, the Netherlands, Thailand and Croatia; as well as at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Museum and various other US galleries. His residencies have included Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California; Catwalk in New New York; and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Book Synopsis Iraq after America by : Joel Rayburn
Download or read book Iraq after America written by Joel Rayburn and published by Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a decade after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, most studies of the Iraq conflict focus on the twin questions of whether the United States should have entered Iraq in 2003 and whether it should have exited in 2011, but few have examined the new Iraqi state and society on its own merits. Iraq after America examines the government and the sectarian and secular factions that have emerged in Iraq since the U.S. invasion of 2003, presenting the interrelations among the various elements in the Iraqi political scene. The book traces the origins of key trends in recent Iraqi history to explain the political and social forces that produced them, particularly during the intense period of civil war between 2003 and 2009. Along the way, the author looks at some of the most significant players in the new Iraq, explaining how they have risen to prominence and what their aims are. The author identifies the three trends that dominate Iraq's post-U.S. political order: authoritarianism, sectarianism, and Islamist resistance, tracing their origins and showing how they have created a toxic political and social brew, preventing Iraq's political elite from resolving the fundamental roots of conflict that have wracked that country since 2003 and before. He concludes by examining some aspects of the U.S. legacy in Iraq, analyzing what it means for the United States and others that, after more than a decade of conflict, Iraq's communities—and its political class in particular—have not yet found a way to live together in peace.
