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Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile by Al-Radi, Nuha
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 1400075254
- Book Title
- Baghdad Diaries : a Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
- Topic
- Women, Sociology / General, International Relations / General, Economic Conditions, Military / Persian Gulf War (1991), World / Middle Eastern
- Item Weight
- 7 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Product Identifiers
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
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Women, Sociology / General, International Relations / General, Economic Conditions, Military / Persian Gulf War (1991), World / Middle Eastern
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
7 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-276233
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)
Dewey Edition
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Dewey Decimal
956.7470443092
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
N7269.A47A2 2003
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