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Baghdad Diaries
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Author : Nuha al-Radi
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Baghdad Diaries written by Nuha al-Radi and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this often moving, sometimes wry account of life in Baghdad during the first war on Iraq and in exile in the years following, Iraqi-born, British-educated artist Nuha al-Radi shows us the effects of war on ordinary people. She recounts the day-to-day realities of living in a city under siege, where food has to be consumed or thrown out because there is no way to preserve it, where eventually people cannot sleep until the nightly bombing commences, where packs of stray dogs roam the streets (and provide her own dog Salvi with a harem) and rats invade homes. Through it all, al-Radi works at her art and gathers with neighbors and family for meals and other occasions, happy and sad. In the wake of the war, al-Radi lives in semi-exile, shuttling between Beirut and Amman, travelling to New York, London, Mexico and Yemen. As she suffers the indignities of being an Iraqi in exile, al-Radi immerses us in a way of life constricted by the stress and effects of war and embargoes, giving texture to a reality we have only been able to imagine before now. But what emanates most vibrantly from these diaries is the spirit of endurance and the celebration of the smallest of life’s joys.
Baghdad Diaries
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Author : Nuha Radi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Baghdad Diaries written by Nuha Radi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
We have read much about the allied 'precision bombing' in the 1991 Gulf War with Iraq and even now the military uses terms like 'clean' war with reference to any future attack on Baghdad. However, the truth is more painful and in Baghdad Diaries Nuha al-Radi lays bare these truths. Life under continuous bombing becomes unbelievably primitive and for the Iraqi people who suffered the noise, the dirt, the danger, and the despair it was almost a return to a medieval existence. This is a unique testimony of the facts of 'precision bombing' by a witness who can express them sensitively and with a clear memory.
Baghdad Diaries 1991 2002
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Author : Nuha al- Radi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Baghdad Diaries 1991 2002 written by Nuha al- Radi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Artists categories.
Salam Pax
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Author : Salam Pax
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2003
Salam Pax written by Salam Pax and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Bringing these writings together for the first time, Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi provides one of the most gripping accounts of the Iraqi conflict."--Jacket.
Baghdad Diaries 1991 2002
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Author : Nuha Radi
language : en
Publisher: Saqi Books
Release Date : 2003
Baghdad Diaries 1991 2002 written by Nuha Radi and has been published by Saqi Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Providing a comprehensive examination of the origins, development, and status of committees and committee systems in both the House and Senate, this edition carries on the book's tradition of comprehensive coverage, empirical richness, and theoretical relevance in its discussion of these essential and distinguishing features of our national legislature. While the second edition focused on the "post-reform" committee systems, addressed the shifts in the internal distribution of power, and hinted at the forces that had already begun to undermine the power of committees, this edition updates that analysis and looks at the reforms that evolvied under the Republicans. It offers complete coverage of the rules and structural changes to the House and Senate committee systems. It extends its discussion of committee power and influence in the context of the "Contract with America," Republican reforms, and the inter-party warfare on Capitol Hill.
Baghdad Blues
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Author : David C. Turnley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Baghdad Blues written by David C. Turnley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
"Turnley's tour of duty in the Middle East began this time in February 2003, when CNN sent him there to generate video, photography, and on-air reportage. Operating independent of American troops, he was first smuggled across the heavily guarded Turkish border into Syria and then guided by Kurdish peshmergas through Tigris River marshes into northern Iraq, where Kurdish irregulars and American special forces faced Iraqi regiments. Turnley traversed the Kurdish war zones to encounter a string of increasingly hostile Sunni-dominated towns and arrived to witness the fall of Baghdad.".
Diary Of An Old Contemptible
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Author : Peter Downham
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2005-04-19
Diary Of An Old Contemptible written by Peter Downham and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-19 with History categories.
“First class . . . a book that helps the reader to understand just what the ordinary soldier thought about his lot in the Great War.” —The Western Front Association This is a most unusual chronicle of the events of one man during the Great War. A professional soldier at the outbreak, Edward Roe was one of the first to cross over to France in 1914 and as such fought in the early battles of the war and took part in the Retreat from Mons. He was there for the crossing of the Marne and Aisne, the dreadful fighting at Ploegsteert and for the extraordinary events during the first Christmas. Remarkably he witnessed the debacle at Gallipoli and was part of the rear-guard of the Army during the re-embarkation and evacuation of the Peninsula. Thereafter the scene shifts to Mesopotamia and the Tigris Corps in the attempt to relieve General Townshend at Kut. Wounded he returned for the final campaign that captured Baghdad. “The author of these unique and extraordinarily moving diaries, which are supported by excellent maps and footnotes, was Edward Roe, an Irishman who had already served nine years with the British Army by the outbreak of the first world war.” —The Times
Gertrude Bell
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Author : Rosemary O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2015-02-01
Gertrude Bell written by Rosemary O'Brien and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her adventures are the stuff of novels: she rode with bandits; braved desert shamals; was captured by Bedouins; and sojourned in a harem. Called the most powerful woman in the British Empire, she counseled kings and prime ministers. Bell’s colleagues included Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, who in 1921 invited Bell—the only woman whose advice was sought—to the Cairo Conference to “determine the future of Mesopotamia.” Bell numbered among her closest friends T.E. Lawrence, St. John Philby, and Arabian sheiks. In this volume of three of her notebooks, Rosemary O’Brien preserves Bell’s elegant, vibrant prose, and presents Bell as a brilliant tactician fearlessly confronting her own vulnerability. The fundamental themes of her life—reckless behavior; a divided self which combined brilliance of intellect with a passionate nature; a sense of history; and the fatal gift of falling in love with a married man—are all here in remarkable detail. Her journey to northern Arabia in 1914 earned Bell professional recognition from the Royal Geographical Society, and solidified her reputation as a canny political analyst of Middle Eastern affairs. In addition to Bell’s own photographs, O’Brien has provided us an unprecedented first access to excerpts of the Bell/Richard Doughty-Wyllie love letters, the married British army officer with whom she was in love and for whom her diaries were written.
Satish Jacob From Hotel Palestine Baghdad
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Author : Satish Jacob
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Satish Jacob From Hotel Palestine Baghdad written by Satish Jacob and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
An eyewitness account of the events leading to the end of Saddam Hussein's reign in Iraq by Satish Jacob, the only Indian journalist in Baghdad at the time.
Baghdad Blog
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Author : Salam Pax
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Baghdad Blog written by Salam Pax and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.