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Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad
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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… |
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Barefoot in Baghdad
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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… |
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What kind of liberation?
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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… |
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Between two rivers
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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 … |
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Love in a Torn Land
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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 … |
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