Prince of the Marshes And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

Name: Prince of the Marshes And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
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ISBN: 9780151012350

ISBN-10: 0151012350

ISBN-13: 9780151012350

Edition: 2006

Authors: Rory Stewart

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In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war. The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart's year. As a participant he takes us inside the occupation and beyond the Green Zone, introducing us to a…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 8/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Foreword Dramatis Personae Timeline


Introduction


Capitalist-Imperialist-Crusader Waking Up Dead Mordor



The Prince of the Marshes


The British Camp Regeneration


The General Civil Affairs Persia Ice Cream Baklava Pagoda


The Supervisory Committee High Command



Death of a Hero


Friday Prayers And Would Not Stay for an Answer Resolutions


Blood Money Resignation Summit



Iraqi Pastoral


Al-Mutanabi Street Rural Rides Deputy


The Paths That Lead to Destruction Import Substitution Industrialization Jobs Mutiny Sheikhs Precautions


The Islamic Call Sadrines Majority and Minority Poet Our Successors Departures Trust


A New Chief Death by the Office Wall Credibility



NasiriyahArrivals Morning Meeting


A Second Governor Sage of the Assembly Mudhif Ali Zeidi


Police Echoes from the Frontiers


Kidnapped Rewarding Friends


Foreign Elements Return to the Green Zone


The Rule of Law



Besieged


The Quick Reaction Force Kabul Reprise Final Days Leaders Last Days in Amara Handing Over


Afterword


Acknowledgments