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Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile by al-Radi, Nuha
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- ISBN
- 9781400075256
- Book Title
- Baghdad Diaries : a Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Women, Sociology / General, Military / Persian Gulf War (1991), Economic Conditions, International Relations / General, World / Middle Eastern
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400075254
ISBN-13
9781400075256
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2483704
Product Key Features
Book Title
Baghdad Diaries : a Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, Sociology / General, Military / Persian Gulf War (1991), Economic Conditions, International Relations / General, World / Middle Eastern
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
N7269.A47a2 2003
Reviews
"I searched for recent books about Iraq that described it as a real country. I found only one, the excellent Baghdad Diaries ." Edward Said "I hope many people will read this book and note the futility of war and perhaps do something about it; all my life I have cherished this hope in vain, but we must not stop." Mary Wesley, author of Harnessing Peacocks and A Sensible Life "Something of what sanctions mean for ordinary Iraqis. . .records the day-to-day struggle for survival." Times Literary Supplement "Insouciant, charming and witty, with much black humour. Al-Radi writes poignantly." The Independent (London) From the Trade Paperback edition., "I searched for recent books about Iraq that described it as a real country. I found only one, the excellent Baghdad Diaries." -Edward Said "I hope many people will read this book and note the futility of war and perhaps do something about it; all my life I have cherished this hope in vain, but we must not stop." -Mary Wesley, author of Harnessing Peacocks and A Sensible Life "Something of what sanctions mean for ordinary Iraqis. . .records the day-to-day struggle for survival." -Times Literary Supplement "Insouciant, charming and witty, with much black humour. Al-Radi writes poignantly." -The Independent (London), "I searched for recent books about Iraq that described it as a real country. I found only one, the excellent Baghdad Diaries ." -Edward Said "I hope many people will read this book and note the futility of war and perhaps do something about it; all my life I have cherished this hope in vain, but we must not stop." -Mary Wesley, author of Harnessing Peacocks and A Sensible Life "Something of what sanctions mean for ordinary Iraqis. . .records the day-to-day struggle for survival." - Times Literary Supplement "Insouciant, charming and witty, with much black humour. Al-Radi writes poignantly." - The Independent (London), "I searched for recent books about Iraq that described it as a real country. I found only one, the excellentBaghdad Diaries." -Edward Said "I hope many people will read this book and note the futility of war and perhaps do something about it; all my life I have cherished this hope in vain, but we must not stop." -Mary Wesley, author ofHarnessing PeacocksandA Sensible Life "Something of what sanctions mean for ordinary Iraqis. . .records the day-to-day struggle for survival." -Times Literary Supplement "Insouciant, charming and witty, with much black humour. Al-Radi writes poignantly." -The Independent(London)
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-276233
Dewey Decimal
956.7470443092
Dewey Edition
0
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