Voices from Iraq A People's History, 2003-2009

Name: Voices from Iraq A People's History, 2003-2009
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ISBN: 9780231156929

ISBN-10: 0231156928

ISBN-13: 9780231156929

Edition: 2011

Authors: Mark Kukis

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"Baghdad fell on a Tuesday I think. I went driving around our neighborhood, Karada, with my husband a day or two after that just to have a look around. The looters were everywhere. I saw women and children pushing trolleys full of things out of an old intelligence office. At the national theater, they were loading a garbage truck with the seats from inside, and streams of people were coming out carrying all kinds of props. I saw plastic models of the planets bopping down the streets in the arms of thieves. They took everything you can imagine taking from a theater. Everything."& -Azhar Abdul-Karim Abdul-Wahab, lecturer in political science, Baghdad University Featuring the testimony of…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/10/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Currently based in Washington, D.C., Mark Kukis left a job as a White House correspondent for United Press International shortly after September 11 to cover the war in Afghanistan as a freelance correspondent working closely with the online magazine SALON.COM. This is his first book.



Introduction


A Note on Civilian Casualties



The Sanctity of Guns and Shrines


Ra'ad Obaeid Hussein


Ahmed Abu Ali


An Army in Defeat


Gassan Abdul Waned Ined


Baha'a Nouri Yasseen


Hussein al-Awadie


Mohammed Khalil Hamed


The Roads of Falling Cities


Rahma Abdul Kareem Abbas


Mohammed Abbas Abdul al-Hur


Farid Hadi Abdul Zahra


Ali al-Shaheen


Tahseen al-Shaikhli


A Guest For



Ali Abdul Majid


Home No More


Abdul Hadi Isma'il


Hitting Back


Omar Yousef Hussein



An End to Exile


Ayad Allawi


Mithal al-Alusi


The Coming of a War Within


Abu Mustapha


Azhar Abdul-Karim Abdul-Wahab


Ahmed Ibrahim Abdul Wahab


Ka'ab Zuhir Ahmed


Saman Dlawer Hussein


Old Foes


Mohammed Ra'ad Ahmed


The Edge of Battles


Hayder Hamid Jawad


Luay Ali Hussein


Adel Rasheed Majeed


A Saying About Luck


Abdul Wahab Fuad Abdul Wahab



A New Order


Ali Jawad Kadhem


Saddam Hatif Hatim al-Jabouri


Sami Hilali


Hayfa Kareem Sabi'a


Rasim Hassan Haikel


Moving Days


Khail Ibrahim al-Nasir


Um Omar


Ibrahim Ishmael Khalil


Yousef Aboud Ahmed and Anham Muhana Hasoon


Ali Ibrahim Baher


Khalid Adnan Khalid


The Price of Sons


Zaid Allwan Jafar


Salim Kamel Shawal


Questions and Answers


Moustafa Ahmed al-Ta'ee



The Mouths of Soldiers


Sajad al-Hakim


Wissam al-Rashied


Saif Majeed al-Ta'ee


A Visit to the Temple


Hussein Radhi Zuboon


House to House


Captain Emad


Zahra Ech'daf Sangur and Fackria Zugai'er Khata


Paths to Safety


Maysoon Mahdi


Usra J'bara Hadi


The Face of A Savior


Ali Mohammed Hial


Waking Up


Sheik Hamid al-Hais


Sheik Ahmed Buzai Abu Risha and Sheik Abdul Sattar Abu Risha


Sheik Mustafa Kamil Hamad Shabeeb al-Jabouri


Ahmed Basim Mohammed al-Abaje


Laughing to Bucca


Ra'ad Jamal Habib



Keeping to the Neighborhood


Ali Fahed Mahmood


Less Than Whole


Ali'a Anwer Majid


Rana Abdul Mahdi


Beloveds Lost and Found


Maysoon Jahil Obeid


Shiek Jamal Jassim Sudani


Rajiha Jihad Jassim


Entasar Abud Tahan


Salma Hamid


The Makings of Another Life


Hamida Rahdi Salah


Hassan Risn Badr al-Ruba'i


Ala'a Alzobeidi


Hayder Mohammed Jodah


Salah Hamid Jasim


Hassan Ali


Acknowledgments