Sweet Tea with Cardamom A Journey Through Iraqi Kurdistan

Name: Sweet Tea with Cardamom A Journey Through Iraqi Kurdistan
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ISBN: 9780044409847

ISBN-10: 0044409842

ISBN-13: 9780044409847

Edition: 1997

Authors: Teresa Thornhill, Teresa Thornhill, Teresa Thornhill

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Based on her journeys in the so-called safe havens in Iraqi Kurdistan, Thornhill combines a traditional travel memoir with a harrowing investigation into the plight of the Kurds generally, and Kurdish women in particular, under Saddam's regime.

Book details

Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Pandora Press
Publication date: 1/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Author's Note
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Chronology
Southeastern Turkey, May 1993	p. 3
Tea with the British Army	p. 7
Saddam's Palaces	p. 18
A Campaign of Genocide	p. 25
Galawesh, A Woman MP	p. 29
A Grandmother's Story and a Woman Pushmerga	p. 45
Zakho, September 1993	p. 61
Guests of the PUK	p. 68
A Night on the Roof	p. 75
'My Heart Is Not Allowing Me to Marry'	p. 82
The Road to Sulaymaniyah	p. 93
The Man with No Hands	p. 104
In the Bazaar	p. 113
Sahad the Singer	p. 120
"If I Give My Heart to You, Will You Handle It with Care?'	p. 126
Jwan, A Nurse	p. 131
Two Villages: Biyaara and Tawella	p. 141
Democracy in Kurdistan	p. 149
'Thirty Years of War'	p. 150
'No Electricity, No Gas, No Paraffin...'	p. 163
A Desert City and an Iraqi Tank	p. 166
The Pomegranate Orchard	p. 179
The Chemicals at Sheikh Wisan	p. 189
Leaving Kurdistan	p. 202
Epilogue	p. 211
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