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: 9780156032797

ISBN-10: 0156032791

ISBN-13: 9780156032797

Edition: 2007

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, 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 colorful cast of Iraqis and revealing the complexity and fragility of a…

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List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.880
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



Nasiriyah


Arrivals


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


Epilogue


Acknowledgments