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Shoot An Iraqi
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Author : Wafaa Bilal
language : en
Publisher: City Lights Books
Release Date : 2013-08-06
Shoot An Iraqi written by Wafaa Bilal and has been published by City Lights Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Shooting Straight
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Author : Shane Clapper
language : en
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Release Date : 2008-02
Shooting Straight written by Shane Clapper and has been published by Tate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02 with categories.
America is winning in Iraq! Yes, you read that correctly. How you ask? Thats what Shooting Straight How the American Led Coalition is Winning the War in Iraq answers. Shane Clapper has spoken directly with soldiers who have been there and witnessed the blood shed and the carnage of war. Yet they have also seen the good that is coming out of the liberation process. Their accounts on how the people of Iraq, their mission, and the future of Iraqi democracy look like are entirely different than what one gets on the evening news. This is their story. From the fall of Baghdad, to Beanie Babies becoming the new Iraqi fad. From the excitement of reality TV becoming a hit within the country, to Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction. Clapper co vers it all from front to back and beyond. As a doctor serving in Iraq, Lieutenant Colonel Gary Morsch put it, What you see graphically on television is only a sliver of the whole pie. The media is not giving you the big picture, or the whole truthThe fact is there are far more people who appreciate and respect Americans than youd guess by watching TV. In fact, those who oppose our presence are a very small minority? Sure there are bombings and beheadings in Iraq. Sure lots of American and Iraqis have died in the conflict. Yet there are immense signs of progress, from education, to business opportunities, to reconstruction, to womens rights, and in even of all areas sports. The list is long on the good things that are going on in Iraq. Shooting Straight How the American Led Coalition is Winning the War in Iraq shows what television, most newspapers, and even President Bush has failed to do. It tells why we are winning in Iraq. From facts and figures, to quotesfrom Iraqis and American soldiers, to stories that will warm your heart. Shooting Straight will get behind the fiction
Don T Shoot The Clowns
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Author : Jo Wilding
language : en
Publisher: New Internationalist
Release Date : 2006
Don T Shoot The Clowns written by Jo Wilding and has been published by New Internationalist this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Accipitridae categories.
As a human rights observer, Jo Wilding, a young British trainee lawyer and solidarity activist, witnessed and recorded some of the worst atrocities committed against ordinary civilians. As the occupation started, she joined a group of performers to put on circus shows in squatter camps, hospitals, schools and orphanages. Jo Wilding is not a journalist but a new kind of citizen reporter', instinctively recording events and publishing directly online.'
The Last True Story I Ll Ever Tell
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Author : John Crawford
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-04-04
The Last True Story I Ll Ever Tell written by John Crawford and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq. John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married—in fact, on his honeymoon—he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq. Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began recording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell—a haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.
Don T Shoot I Have Another Story To Tell You
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Author : Elen Ghulam
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2006-09
Don T Shoot I Have Another Story To Tell You written by Elen Ghulam and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09 with Fiction categories.
In the book One Thousand and One Nights. Scheherazade has to tell stories in order to survive. She tells such interesting and compelling stories that King Schehrayar can't help but let her live one more night and then another and then another. After a thousand and one nights, he gets attached and forgets his murderous desire. By salvaging her own life with stories, Scheherazade in turn liberates Schehrayar's heart from its darkness. As war and terrorism rages, so grows the antagonism between the Middle East and the West. "Don't Shoot! . . . I have another story to tell you" is the personal journey of an Iraqi woman who walks the tightrope between East and West. The book is a funny and often moving voyage of uncovering, discovering and discarding of identity. It is a book understanding the past, and telling new stories in order to embrace the future. Through these tales of transformation the book encourages the reader to grow attached and come to understand the Middle East's many contradictions.
Under The Gun In Iraq
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Author : Robert Cole
language : en
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Release Date : 2010-05-04
Under The Gun In Iraq written by Robert Cole and has been published by Prometheus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A sobering read from another lost front. - Kirkus ReviewsWhat happens when you drop an experienced American cop in the middle of a war zone - with very little preparation or support - to train Iraqi police? Under the Gun in Iraq tells you in high fidelity detail about this vital aspect of U.S. efforts to build a nation.-BRYAN VILA, Ph.D., Professor at Washington State University, former Marine, Los Angeles police officer and cross-cultural police trainerOne moment, I was standing there with my buddies unloading a truck. The next moment, my ears picked up the distinct 'pssst' sound homing in on us.... Hit the ground! someone yelled. Right behind the first mortar was a second, then a third, then a fourth. They each slammed into the earth with an enormous impact. The ground shook. The eight-story building above us shuddered, and we all covered our heads when the windows blew out. As I lay there with glass and debris raining down on me, all I could think was, 'Holy shit, what did I get myself into?'President Bush is fond of saying, When Iraq can stand up, America can stand down. A large part of standing up is having a well-trained police force in place to maintain peace and order.Why is it taking so long to put a solid police force together? How prepared are the Iraqis to carry out their duties? What pitfalls are Americans facing as they try to get Iraqi police up to speed?In this book Robert Cole-a retired California police officer hired by DynCorp as an international police trainer-presents a vivid account of the challenges of training the Iraqis to handle their own security. In blunt, everyday language, Cole gives the reader an unusually candid and often hair-raising glimpse into reality at the street level as he and his colleagues navigate the dangerous sectors of Baghdad, Tikrit, and Kirkuk, dodging explosions and bullets aimed at them by young, Iraqi, wannabe heroes.Cole describes situations not shown in the media that fly in the face of the party line from Washington: men in their sixties being hired as policemen, Iraqi detectives who extract information from people by ramming toothpicks under their fingernails, officers suggesting that the best way to subdue potential suspects who flee is by shooting them in the back, police hunkered down in their barracks who refuse to patrol neighborhoods for fear of violence, an enemy that easily blends into a population armed to the teeth with loaded AK-47s, and the routine frustrations of cultural and language barriers to communication.In sharp contrast to the usual bromides about staying the course, Under the Gun in Iraq paints a brutally realistic picture of the bleak, perilous road ahead. This is essential reading for all Americans seeking an honest understanding of the dire situation in Iraq.Robert Cole was a police officer for over 25 years. He retired from the force in East Palo Alto, California, where he was one of the commanders that helped bring the city back from its status as the murder capital of the United States. Cole recently finished almost two years in the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti. He served a one-year tour of duty working for DynCorp as an international police trainer in Iraq and will be redeployed for another in 2008.Jan Hogan (Las Vegas, NV) is an award-winning staff writer for Stephens Media who writes for View newspapers and has published numerous articles in AAA's Motorland (now Via), Law & Order, and other publications. She is currently writing her next book on dyslexia.
Shooting Wars
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Author : Erik Durschmied
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Shooting Wars written by Erik Durschmied and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With his camera in tow, Erik Durschmied has covered every major world event during his career--from the Cuban revolution to the Vietnam War to the conflicts in the Middle East. Illustrated with Durschmied's own photographs, Shooting Wars is an adventure story filled with excitement, danger, and passion.
The Assassins Gate
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Author : George Packer
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2014-05-06
The Assassins Gate written by George Packer and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-06 with Political Science categories.
Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, USA Today, Time, and New York magazine. Winner of the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book on International Affairs Winner of the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate—the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The Assassins' Gate also describes the place of the war in American life: the ideological battles in Washington that led to chaos in Iraq, the ordeal of a fallen soldier's family, and the political culture of a country too bitterly polarized to realize such a vast and morally complex undertaking. George Packer's best-selling first-person narrative combines the scope of an epic history with the depth and intimacy of a novel, creating a masterful account of America's most controversial foreign venture since Vietnam.
The Good Soldiers
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Author : David Finkel
language : en
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Release Date : 2009-09-15
The Good Soldiers written by David Finkel and has been published by Sarah Crichton Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-15 with History categories.
It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. "Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences," he told a skeptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them. Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home forever changed. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel was with them in Bagdad, and almost every grueling step of the way. What was the true story of the surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions he grapples with in his remarkable report from the front lines. Combining the action of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down with the literary brio of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers is an unforgettable work of reportage. And in telling the story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the ruined, David Finkel has also produced an eternal tale—not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time.
American Sniper
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Author : Chris Kyle
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2012-01-03
American Sniper written by Chris Kyle and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie. “An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Iraq--a humanizing, brave story that’s extremely readable.” — PATRICIA CORNWELL, New York Times Book Review "Jaw-dropping...Undeniably riveting." —RICHARD ROEPER, Chicago Sun-Times From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. His fellow American warriors, whom he protected with deadly precision from rooftops and stealth positions during the Iraq War, called him “The Legend”; meanwhile, the enemy feared him so much they named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle, who was tragically killed in 2013, writes honestly about the pain of war—including the deaths of two close SEAL teammates—and in moving first-person passages throughout, his wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on their family, as well as on Chris. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle’s masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time.