Barefoot In Baghdad

Author : Manal Omar
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781402256943

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Barefoot in Baghdad by Manal Omar Pdf

"Walk barefoot and the thorns will hurt you…" —Iraqi-Turkmen proverb A riveting story of hope and despair, of elation and longing, Barefoot in Baghdad takes you to the front lines of a different kind of battle, where the unsung freedom fighters are strong, vibrant—and female. An American aid worker of Arab descent, Manal Omar moves to Iraq to help as many women as she can rebuild their lives. She quickly finds herself drawn into the saga of a people determined to rise from the ashes of war and sanctions and rebuild their lives in the face of crushing chaos. This is a chronicle of Omar's friendships with several Iraqis whose lives are crumbling before her eyes. It is a tale of love, as her relationship with one Iraqi man intensifies in a country in turmoil. And it is the heartrending stories of the women of Iraq, as they grapple with what it means to be female in a homeland you no longer recognize. "Manal Omar captures the complex reality of living and working in war-torn Iraq, a reality that tells the story of love and hope in the midst of bombs and explosions."—Zainab Salbi, founder and CEO of Women for Women International, and author (with Laurie Becklund) of the national bestselling book Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam "A fascinating, honest, and inspiring portrait of a women's rights activist in Iraq, struggling to help local women while exploring her own identity. Manal Omar is a skilled guide into Iraq, as she understands the region, speaks Arabic, and wears the veil. At turns funny and tragic, she carries a powerful message for women, and delivers it through beautiful storytelling."—Christina Asquith, author of Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family and Survival in the New Iraq "At turns funny and tragic…a powerful message for women, [delivered] through beautiful storytelling."—Christina Asquith, author of Sisters in War

Author : Manal Omar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Muslim women
ISBN : 6613354473

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Barefoot in Baghdad by Manal Omar Pdf

An intimate look at the heartrending struggle for freedom and identity in Iraq, from a female American Muslim aid worker who witnessed the chaos firsthand.

Author : Thomas Hamill,Paul T. Brown
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0805441824

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Escape in Iraq by Thomas Hamill,Paul T. Brown Pdf

Author : Christina Asquith
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588367617

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Sisters in War by Christina Asquith Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951001888584H

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The Edinburgh Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066379300

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The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lawrence Anthony,Graham Spence
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781429981439

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Babylon's Ark by Lawrence Anthony,Graham Spence Pdf

The astonishing story of the soldiers, conservationists, and ordinary Iraqis who united to save the animals of the Baghdad Zoo When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, caught in the crossfire at the heart of the city. Once Anthony entered Iraq he discovered that hostilities and uncontrolled looting had devastated the zoo and its animals. Working with members of the zoo staff and a few compassionate U.S. soldiers, he defended the zoo, bartered for food on war-torn streets, and scoured bombed palaces for desperately needed supplies. Babylon's Ark chronicles Anthony's hair-raising efforts to save a pride of Saddam's lions, close a deplorable black-market zoo, run ostriches through shoot-to-kill checkpoints, and rescue the dictator's personal herd of Thoroughbred Arabian horses. A tale of the selfless courage and humanity of a few men and women living dangerously for all the right reasons, Babylon's Ark is an inspiring and uplifting true-life adventure of individuals on both sides working together for the sake of magnificent wildlife caught in a war zone.

Author : Livnat Holtzman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748689576

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Anthropomorphism in Islam by Livnat Holtzman Pdf

Through a close, contextualized, and interdisciplinary reading in Hadith compilations, theological treatises, and historical sources, this book offers an evaluation and understanding of the traditionalistic endeavours to define anthropomorphism in the most crucial and indeed most formative period of Islamic thought.

Author : Rebecca Rowell
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617878237

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Iraq by Rebecca Rowell Pdf

Explore diverse landscapes, travel back in time, and discover unique populations, all without leaving your chair! Start your international tour in Iraq, land of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, ancient Babylonia, the Code of Hammurabi, and so much more. This colorful, informative book introduces Iraq's history, geography, culture, climate, government, economy, and other significant features. Sidebars, maps, fact pages, a glossary, a timeline, historic images and full-color photos, and well-placed graphs and charts enhance this engaging title. Countries of the World is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Author : Sean Naylor
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466876224

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Relentless Strike by Sean Naylor Pdf

The New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the 2015 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award for Unit History Since the attacks of September 11, one organization has been at the forefront of America's military response. Its efforts turned the tide against al-Qaida in Iraq, killed Bin Laden and Zarqawi, rescued Captain Phillips and captured Saddam Hussein. Its commander can direct cruise missile strikes from nuclear submarines and conduct special operations raids anywhere in the world. Relentless Strike tells the inside story of Joint Special Operations Command, the secret military organization that during the past decade has revolutionized counterterrorism, seamlessly fusing intelligence and operational skills to conduct missions that hit the headlines, and those that have remained in the shadows-until now. Because JSOC includes the military's most storied special operations units-Delta Force, SEAL Team 6, the 75th Ranger Regiment-as well as America's most secret aviation and intelligence units, this is their story, too. Relentless Strike reveals tension-drenched meetings in war rooms from the Pentagon to Iraq and special operations battles from the cabin of an MH-60 Black Hawk to the driver's seat of Delta Force's Pinzgauer vehicles as they approach their targets. Through exclusive interviews, reporter Sean Naylor uses his unique access to reveal how an organization designed in the 1980s for a very limited mission set transformed itself after 9/11 to become the military's premier weapon in the war against terrorism and how it continues to evolve today.

Author : Patrick Crowley
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750962582

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Kut 1916: Courage and Failure in Iraq by Patrick Crowley Pdf

The siege of Kut is a story of blunders, sacrifice, imprisonment and escape. The allied campaign in Mesopotamia began in 1914 as a relatively simple operation to secure the oilfields in the Shatt-al-Arab delta and Basra area. Initially it was a great success, but as the army pressed towards Baghdad its poor logistic support, training, equipment and command left it isolated and besieged by the Turks. By 1916 the army had not been relieved, and on 29 April 1916, the British Army suffered one of the worst defeats in its military history. Major-General Sir Charles Townshend surrendered his allied force to the Turks in the Mesopotamian (now Iraq) town of Kut-al-Amara. Over 13,000 troops, British and Indian, went into captivity; many would not survive their incarceration. In Kut 1916, Colonel Crowley recounts this dramatic tale and its terrible aftermath.

Author : Glen Segell
Publisher : Glen Segell Publishers
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Arms control
ISBN : 9781901414264

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Disarming Iraq by Glen Segell Pdf

Author : Sinan Antoon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300228946

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The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon Pdf

Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans. Entrusted with the catalogue and obsessed with Wadood's project, Nameer finds life in New York movingly intertwined with fragments from his homeland's past and its present--destroyed letters, verses, epigraphs, and anecdotes--in this stylistically ambitious panorama of the wreckage of war and the power of memory.

Author : Laure Guirguis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474454261

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Arab Lefts by Laure Guirguis Pdf

Based on an analysis of textual and audio-visual materials, the book surveys radical Left traditions in the Arab world that took shape between the 1950s and 1970s.

Author : Edward P Horvath, MD
Publisher : Trillium
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814258255

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Good Medicine, Hard Times by Edward P Horvath, MD Pdf

The moving memoir of one of the most senior-ranking combat physicians to have served on the battlefields of the second Iraq war.