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A young Iraqi writer sets out to become a Hollywood filmmaker, only to end up as a refugee on the streets of Paris.
Author : Samuel Shimon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789992142295
A young Iraqi writer sets out to become a Hollywood filmmaker, only to end up as a refugee on the streets of Paris.
Author : Samuel Shimon
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9992179031
A young Iraqi writer sets out to become a Hollywood film-maker, only to end up as a refugee on the streets of Paris, where he beds down in a metro station. Although his dream of making a film about his deaf mute father is never realised, the extraordinary encounters he has with the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Beckett and a ghost from Père Lachaise Cemetery transform his own story into a captivating drama more compelling than anything on the big screen.
Author : Samuel Shimon
Publisher : Jacqui Small
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Frédéric Bozo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0231801394
In March 2003, the United States and Great Britain invaded Iraq to put an end to the regime of Saddam Hussein. The war was launched without a United Nations mandate and was based on the erroneous claim that Iraq had retained weapons of mass destruction. France, under President Jacques Chirac and Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, spectacularly opposed the United States and British invasion, leading a global coalition against the war that also included Germany and Russia. The diplomatic crisis leading up to the war shook both French and American perceptions of each other and revealed cracks in the transatlantic relationship that had been building since the end of the Cold War. Based on exclusive French archival sources and numerous interviews with former officials in both France and the United States, A History of the Iraq Crisis retraces the international exchange that culminated in the 2003 Iraq conflict. It shows how and why the Iraq crisis led to a confrontation between two longtime allies unprecedented since the time of Charles de Gaulle, and it exposes the deep and ongoing divisions within Europe, the Atlantic alliance, and the international community as a whole. The Franco-American narrative offers a unique prism through which the American road to war can be better understood.
Author : Feurat Alani
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1637790724
1989. My first trip to Iraq. The taste of apricot. “Never say Saddam’s name.” The Western media largely glossed over the immense human suffering that occurred in Iraq during the embargo of the 1990s and the Iraq War. With this innovative and award-winning graphic novel, French-Iraqi journalist Feurat Alani sets that record straight. The Flavors of Iraq unfolds as a series of one thousand tweets. In them, Alani describes his experiences in Iraq from 1989, when he traveled from France to meet his extended family in Iraq for the first time, to 2011, when the last Americans pulled out of the country. Alani recounts the vivid impressions this place made on him as a child—its wondrous colors, tastes, and smells. And he documents the sounds, silences, and smells of a war in which hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians lost their lives. Illustrated by the striking art of Léonard Cohen and with a foreword by Ross Caputi, a former US Marine who served in Iraq from 2003 to 2006, The Flavors of Iraq tells a poetic and powerful story of an oppressed population, an illegal war, and a country that no longer exists.
Author : Inaam Kachachi
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9992142723
At the beginning of America's occupation of Iraq, 15 years after leaving Baghdad, Zeina returns to her war-torn homeland as an interpreter for the US Army where she finds herself torn by conflicting allegiances. Her traditional grandmother, the only family member that Zeina believes she has in Iraq, disapproves of her granddaughter's involvement with the occupying forces. Whilst in Baghdad, Zeina meets two 'brothers' she knows nothing of. When she falls deeply in love with Muhaymin, a militant in the Al Mehdi Army, she begins to question all her values
Author : Célia Belin
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : Brigitte Findakly
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1770463712
A personal account of an Iraqi childhood Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly’s nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle class childhood touching on cultural practices, the education system, Saddam Hussein’s state control, and her family’s history as Orthodox Christians in the arab world. Poppies of Iraq is intimate and wide-ranging; the story of how one can become separated from one’s homeland and still feel intimately connected yet ultimately estranged. Signs of an oppressive regime permeate a seemingly normal life: magazines arrive edited by customs; the color red is banned after the execution of General Kassim; Baathist militiamen are publicly hanged and school kids are bussed past them to bear witness. As conditions in Mosul worsen over her childhood, Brigitte’s father is always hopeful that life in Iraq will return to being secular and prosperous. The family eventually feels compelled to move to Paris, however, where Brigitte finds herself not quite belonging to either culture. Trondheim brings to life Findakly’s memories to create a poignant family portrait that covers loss, tragedy, love, and the loneliness of exile. Poppies of Iraq has been translated from the French by Helge Dascher. Dascher has been translating graphic novels from French and German to English for over twenty years. A contributor to Drawn & Quarterly since the early days, her translations include acclaimed titles such as the Aya series by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie, Hostage by Guy Delisle, and Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët. With a background in art history and history, she also translates books and exhibitions for museums in North America and Europe. She lives in Montreal.
Author : Sinan Antoon
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2007-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A risky and risqué prison memoir depicts the collective nightmare of life under Saddam.
Author : Naïm Kattan
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN :