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The Iraqi Nights
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Author : Dunya Mikhail
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-27
The Iraqi Nights written by Dunya Mikhail and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Poetry categories.
A stunning new collection by one of Iraq’s brightest poetic voices The Iraqi Nights is the third collection by the acclaimed Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail. Taking The One Thousand and One Nights as her central theme, Mikhail personifies the role of Scheherazade the storyteller, saving herself through her tales. The nights are endless, seemingly as dark as war in this haunting collection, seemingly as endless as war. Yet the poet cannot stop dreaming of a future beyond the violence of a place where “every moment / something ordinary / will happen under the sun.” Unlike Scheherazade, however, Mikhail is writing, not to escape death, but to summon the strength to endure. Inhabiting the emotive spaces between Iraq and the U.S., Mikhail infuses those harsh realms with a deep poetic intimacy. The author’s vivid illustrations — inspired by Sumerian tablets — are threaded throughout this powerful book.
The Iraqi Nights
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Author : Dunya Mikhail
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-27
The Iraqi Nights written by Dunya Mikhail and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Fiction categories.
A stunning new collection by one of Iraq's brightest poetic voices
1001 Nights In Iraq
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Author : Shant Kenderian
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-06-05
1001 Nights In Iraq written by Shant Kenderian and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Shant Kenderian's visit to Baghdad in 1980, at age seventeen, was supposed to be a short one -- just enough time to make peace with his estranged father before returning to his home in the United States. But then Saddam Hussein invaded Iran and sealed off Iraq's borders to every man of military age -- including Shant. Suddenly forced onto the front lines, his two-week visit turned into a nightmare that lasted for ten years. 1001 Nights in Iraq presents a human story that provides unique insight into a country and culture that we only get a hint of in the headlines. After surviving the horrors of the Iran-Iraq War, Shant was then forced to fight on the front lines of Desert Storm without being given the proper equipment, including a gun, but miraculously survived to be captured by the Americans and become a POW. He underwent starvation, heavy interrogations, and solitary confinement, but what broke him in the end was his love affair with a female American soldier. Yet throughout this whole ordeal, Shant never lost his respect for people, his faith in God, or his sense of humor.
In Her Feminine Sign
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Author : Dunya Mikhail
language : en
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Release Date : 2019-08-29
In Her Feminine Sign written by Dunya Mikhail and has been published by Carcanet Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-29 with Poetry categories.
A Poetry Book Society Autumn 2019 Wild Card Selection At the heart of In Her Feminine Sign, Dunya Mikhail's luminous new collection of poems, is the Arabic suffix taamarbuta, 'the tied circle' – a circle with two dots above it that indicates a feminine word, or sign. This tied circle transforms into the moon, a stone that binds friendship, birdsong over ruins, and a hymn to Nisaba, the goddess of writing. With a deceptive simplicity and disquieting humour reminiscent of Wisława Szymborska, and a lyricism wholly her own, Mikhail slips between her childhood in Baghdad and her present life in Detroit, between Ground Zero and a mass grave, tracing new circles of light.
The Beekeeper Rescuing The Stolen Women Of Iraq
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Author : Dunya Mikhail
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2018-03-27
The Beekeeper Rescuing The Stolen Women Of Iraq written by Dunya Mikhail and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-27 with History categories.
The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from Daesh Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won’t convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women. The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women—who’ve lost their families and loved ones, who’ve been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons—and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a beekeeper, who uses his knowledge of the local terrain, along with a wide network of transporters, helpers, and former cigarette smugglers, to bring these women, one by one, through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, back into safety. In the face of inhuman suffering, this powerful work of nonfiction offers a counterpoint to Daesh’s genocidal extremism: hope, as ordinary people risk their own lives to save those of others.
The Iraqi
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Author : Julie A. Mulholland
language : en
Publisher: Stamford House Publishing
Release Date : 2008
The Iraqi written by Julie A. Mulholland and has been published by Stamford House Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Jo Huxley is a dynamic sales executive for an international telecomms company. But behind the money and the glitter lie the trappings of success and a personal life that is disintegrating. A stranger in Iraq begins to send Jo emails filled with desperation to escape.
Revolt Against The Sun
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Author : Nazik al-Malaʾika
language : en
Publisher: Saqi Books
Release Date : 2020-10-29
Revolt Against The Sun written by Nazik al-Malaʾika and has been published by Saqi Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with Poetry categories.
The Iraqi poet Nazik al-Malaika was one of the most important Arab poets of the twentieth century. Over the course of a four-decade career, her contributions to both the theory and the practice of free verse (or tafʿilah) poetry confirmed her position as a pioneer of Arab modernism. Revolt Against the Sun presents a selection of Nazik al-Malaika's poetry in English for the first time. Bringing together poems from each of her published collections, it traces al-Mala'ika's transformation from a lyrical Romantic poet in the 1940s to a fervently committed Arab nationalist in the 1970s and 1980s. The translations offer both an overview of her life and work, and an insight into the political and social realities in the Arab world in the decades following the Second World War. Featuring a comprehensive historical and critical introduction, this bilingual reader reveals how one woman transformed the landscape of modern Arabic literature and culture in the twentieth century. It is a key resource for students and teachers of Arabic and world literature, as well as for readers interested in discovering an alternative narrative of modern Iraqi culture.
Nights In The Pink Motel
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Author : Robert Earle
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 2008
Nights In The Pink Motel written by Robert Earle and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Robert Earle presents a firsthand account of the strategic process that sought to reverse the negative consequences of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. He offers an insider's details and insights into the early attempts to deal with the Iraqi insurgency and to develop Coalition counterinsurgency plans. His book is a sustained, comprehensive account of all the conflicting factors that have made Iraq such an intractable international crisis. Recruited as a strategist by John Negroponte, the first U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Earle documents the Coalition's uncertainty about the nature of the insurgent/terrorist enemies and explores the impediments frustrating the massive, $18 billion U.S. reconstruction effort. He recounts helping to formulate a comprehensive counterinsurgency strategy, issued jointly in a unique collaboration by Ambassador Negroponte and Multinational Force Iraq Commanding General George Casey." "Upon drafting the strategy, Earle was evacuated from Iraq because of a massive deep vein thrombosis in his left thigh. Arriving home, Earle thought his nightmare assignment in Iraq was over, but Negroponte requested that he return to Baghdad to write a message to the president explaining that U.S. policy was failing and offering an alternative approach. Casey, meanwhile, asked Earle to assess the evolution of Iraqi politics and possible outcomes of the risky January 2005 election. Returning to Iraq over the strenuous objections of State Department doctors, Earle worked to complete his assignments from dingy offices within Saddam Hussein's former presidential palace in Baghdad's Green Zone that he dubbed the "Pink Motel." Digging deeper into his mission, he was faced with the difficult realities of the effort to end the violence and to build lasting peace." "Earle wraps the stories of soldiers, diplomats, contractors, Iraqis, and Coalition partners into the larger strategic crisis. He offers unmatched portrayals of personal and psychological sacrifice and stress, routine acts of courage and solidarity, and the bizarre atmosphere of violence and uncertainty in war-torn Iraq."--BOOK JACKET.
Fifteen Iraqi Poets
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Author : Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Poetry Pamphlet
Release Date : 2013
Fifteen Iraqi Poets written by Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl and has been published by New Directions Poetry Pamphlet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Literary Criticism categories.
A collection of dazzling new, contemporary from Iraq, edited by award-winning Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail
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.
