Imagining Iraq
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Imagining Iraq
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Author : Suman Gupta
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-01-19
Imagining Iraq written by Suman Gupta and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the run-up to, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts addressing that context were produced, circulated and viewed as taking a position for or against the invasion, or contributing political insights. This book provides an in-depth survey of such texts to examine what they reveal about the condition of literature.
Imagining Iraq Stories
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Author : Bárbara Mujica
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-01-31
Imagining Iraq Stories written by Bárbara Mujica and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-31 with categories.
Imagine that your only son was away in a war zone, exposed day and night to mortar attacks, IEDs, and snipers. Jacqueline Montez, the narrator in "Imagining Iraq" is the mother of a Marine stationed in Iraq. Racked with fear, she spends her days imagining her son's life in Ramadi, at the heart of the Sunni triangle, the most dangerous area of Iraq. To ease her loneliness and anxiety, Jacqueline rents rooms to veterans, many of whom tell her stories.The stories in this collection all based on true stories veterans have told the author. Some are heart-wrenching accounts of senseless loss. Some involve the moral choices soldiers must make-for example, whether to kill a terrorist when children are present. Some focus on the mental health of veterans struggling to transition back into civilian life. Others depict women soldiers determined to maintain their dignity in a mostly male world. Not all these stories are gloomy, however. One depicts an unlikely friendship between a Marine and a fiercely anti-American Iraqi tailor and another the collusion between a commanding officer and his men to save the life of a dog.Three of these stories have won the Maryland Writers Association National Fiction Competition. "Jason's Cap," about a suicidal Army veteran, won first prize in 2015. "Ox," about a wayward pup who finds his way into the hearts of a platoon of Marines, won second prize in 2016. "Imagining Iraq," about Marines billeted in the home of an Iraqi family, won third prize in 2010. "Imagining Iraq" was selected for a public reading at the Navy War Memorial on Veterans Day, 2010. Two stories, "Prejudice" and "Ahmed the Tailor", have appeared in Living Springs Baby Boomer Plus Collections.
Imagining The Nation
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Author : Harith Al-Qarawee
language : en
Publisher: Harith Alqarawee
Release Date : 2012
Imagining The Nation written by Harith Al-Qarawee and has been published by Harith Alqarawee this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Ethnic conflict categories.
Imagining The Nation Nationalism Sectarianism And Socio Political Conflict In Iraq
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Author : Harith Al Qarawee
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2016-03-07
Imagining The Nation Nationalism Sectarianism And Socio Political Conflict In Iraq written by Harith Al Qarawee and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-07 with categories.
When the statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled down in Baghdad's Firdous square, Iraq was entering a new phase of uncertainty. This is a country whose history has been shaped by foreign occupations, authoritarianism, wars and violence. Its identity was always a matter of controversy. The incompatibility between Iraq as a territorial entity and the various cultural identities of its population made it more difficult for Iraqis to imagine their 'Nation'. This Identity Problem has been made worse by a political power which has always based itself on the hegemony politics of exclusion. Through a long journey in the historical processes and socio-political conflicts, the author tells the story of a country devastated by its legacy, seeking to reconcile with itself and re-imagine its nationhood.
Iraq 100
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Author : Hassan Blasim
language : en
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date : 2017-09-12
Iraq 100 written by Hassan Blasim and has been published by Tor Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-12 with Fiction categories.
One of NPR's Best Books of 2017! A groundbreaking anthology of science fiction from Iraq that will challenge your perception of what it means to be “The Other” “History is a hostage, but it will bite through the gag you tie around its mouth, bite through and still be heard.”—Operation Daniel In a calm and serene world, one has the luxury of imagining what the future might look like. Now try to imagine that future when your way of life has been devastated by forces beyond your control. Iraq + 100 poses a question to Iraqi writers (those who still live in that nation, and those who have joined the worldwide diaspora): What might your home country look like in the year 2103, a century after a disastrous foreign invasion? Using science fiction, allegory, and magical realism to challenge the perception of what it means to be “The Other”, this groundbreaking anthology edited by Hassan Blasim contains stories that are heartbreakingly surreal, and yet utterly recognizable to the human experience. Though born out of exhaustion, fear, and despair, these stories are also fueled by themes of love, family, and endurance, and woven through with a delicate thread of hope for the future. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Return To Ruin
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Author : Zainab Saleh
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-06
Return To Ruin written by Zainab Saleh and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with History categories.
This volume of exiles’ accounts “[uses] the stories as springboards to discussing Iraqi history, politicization, and diasporic experiences in depth” (International Journal of Middle East Studies). With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba’th coup and support of Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1980s, to the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 invasion and occupation. Zainab Saleh shares the experiences of Iraqis she met over fourteen years of fieldwork in Iraqi London—offering stories from an aging communist nostalgic for the streets she marched since childhood, a devout Shi’i dreaming of holy cities and family graves, and newly uprooted immigrants with fresh memories of loss, as well as her own. Focusing on debates among Iraqi exiles about what it means to be an Iraqi after years of displacement, Saleh weaves a narrative that draws attention to a once-dominant, vibrant Iraqi cultural landscape and social and political shifts among the diaspora after decades of authoritarianism, war, and occupation in Iraq. Through it all, this book illuminates how Iraqis continue to fashion a sense of belonging and imagine a future, built on the shards of these shattered memories.
We Are Iraqis
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Author : Nadje Al-Ali
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-18
We Are Iraqis written by Nadje Al-Ali 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 2013-01-18 with Art categories.
While the occupation of Iraq and its aftermath has received media and political attention, we know very little about the everyday lives of Iraqis. Iraqi men, women, and children are not merely passive victims of violence, vulnerable recipients of repressive regimes, or bystanders of their country’s destruction. In the face of danger and trauma, Iraqis continue to cope, preparing food, sending their children to school, socializing, telling jokes, and dreaming of a better future. Within the realm of imagination and creative expression, the editors find that many Iraqi artists have not only survived but have also sought healing. In We Are Iraqis, Al-Ali and Al-Najjar showcase written and visual contributions by Iraqi artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, and activists. Contributors explore the way Iraqis retain, subvert, and produce art and activism as ways of coping with despair and resisting chaos and destruction. The first anthology of its kind, We Are Iraqis brings into focus the multitude of ethnicities, religions, and experiences that are all part of Iraq.
Iraq In Wartime
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Author : Dina Rizk Khoury
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-08
Iraq In Wartime written by Dina Rizk Khoury and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-08 with History categories.
When US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country that had been at war for 23 years. Yet in their attempts to understand Iraqi society and history, few policy makers, analysts and journalists took into account the profound impact that Iraq's long engagement with war had on the Iraqis' everyday engagement with politics, the business of managing their daily lives, and their cultural imagination. Drawing on government documents and interviews, Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last twenty-three years of Ba'thist rule. Khoury argues that war was a form of everyday bureaucratic governance and examines the Iraqi government's policies of creating consent, managing resistance and religious diversity, and shaping public culture. Coming on the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, this book tells a multilayered story of a society in which war has become the norm.
The Chronicle Of Seert
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Author : Philip Wood
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-29
The Chronicle Of Seert written by Philip Wood and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-29 with History categories.
This book examines the cultural and political history of the Church of the East, the main Christian church in Iraq and Iran. Philip Wood uses medieval Arabic sources to examine history-writing by Christians in the fifth to ninth centuries AD.
Re Imagining The War On Terror
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Author : Andrew Hill
language : en
Publisher: New Security Challenges
Release Date : 2009-01-15
Re Imagining The War On Terror written by Andrew Hill and has been published by New Security Challenges this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-15 with Political Science categories.
An innovative reassessment of the War on Terror organized around the themes of seeing, waiting, travelling.