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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad Bee Rowlatt Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut and blow dry?May's a tough-talking, hard-smoking, lecturer in English. She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad, dodging bul… OL15182896W
Barefoot in Baghdad Barefoot in Baghdad Manal M. Omar Despite her family’s opposition to Omar’s assuming the position of country director in Iraq with Women for Women International, a group that helped female survivors of war to rebuild their lives, she… OL15393956W
What kind of liberation? What kind of liberation? Nadje Al-Ali,Cynthia Enloe,Nadje Sadig Al-Ali,Nicola Pratt "In the run-up to war in Iraq, the Bush administration assured the world that America's interest was in liberation - especially for women. In this first book to examine how Iraqi women have fared sin… OL3025251W
Between two rivers Between two rivers Dorothy Al Khafaji "An honest, funny, and moving memoir of a young woman from England transplanted into another culture by love, 'Between Two Rivers' details the experience of vibrant 1960s Baghdad life and the city's … OL32841475W
Love in a Torn Land Love in a Torn Land Jean P. Sasson One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They were followed by sinister canisters falling to the … OL8053124W