Curse of the Al Dulaimi Hotel: and Other Half-truths from Baghdad

Curse of the Al Dulaimi Hotel: and Other Half-truths from Baghdad
Colin Freeman (Author)

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Colin Freeman is a tabloid hack, wasting his life hanging around outside the houses of minor celebrities. His job is soul-destroying and his personal life isn't much better. So he jacks it all in and goes to Iraq - as Britain's most amateur war correspondent. Against the odds, Freeman finds his feet and reveals a slice of Iraq unlike any other (getting shot in the backside along the way) and delivers a hilarious and insightful travelogue from the edges of modern journalism.

"Freeman's light tone darkens as the violence in Baghdad escalates; he communicates his experiences in a refreshingly unmacho way." Sunday Telegraph

• Rank: #370974 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Baghdad Sketches: Journeys through Iraq (Freya Stark Collection)

Baghdad Sketches: Journeys through Iraq (Freya Stark Collection)
Freya Stark (Author)
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Freya Stark first journeyed to Iraq in 1927. Seven years after the establishment of the British Mandate, the modern state was in its infancy and worlds apart from the country it has since become. During her many years in Iraq, Stark was witness to the rise and fall of the British involvement in the country as well as the early years of independence. Typically—and controversially—she chose to live outside the close-knit western expatriate scene and immersed herself in the way of life of ordinary Iraqis—living in the “native” quarter of the city and spending time with its tribal sheikhs and leaders. Venturing out of Baghdad, she traveled to Mosul, Nineveh, Tikrit and Najaf, where she perceptively describes the millennia-old tensions between Sunni and Shi'a. In the 1940s she returned again, this time traveling south, to the Marsh Arabs, whose way of life has now all but disappeared; north into Kurdistan and later, Kuwait, in the days before the oil boom.

• Rank: #768418 in Books
• Published on: 2011-05-10
• Released on: 2011-05-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.72" h x .91" w x 5.00" l, .55 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

Return to the Marshes: Life With the Marsh Arabs of Iraq

Return to the Marshes: Life With the Marsh Arabs of Iraq
Gavin Young (Author)

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• Rank: #252845 in Books
• Published on: 1989
• Format: Import
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

The demonic comedy: Some detours in the Baghdad of Saddam Hussein

The demonic comedy: Some detours in the Baghdad of Saddam Hussein
Paul William Roberts (Author)
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A hilarious and horrific account of three journeys into the dark heart of contemporary Iraq. Paul William Roberts first visited Iraq during the Arab summit in 1990. He went back in 1991 during the Gulf War. One of the few Western journalists to get into Iraq, he was arrested by soldiers on the outskirts of Baghdad at the height of the Allied attack and witnessed the nightmarish effects of the bombing on the city's civilians and infrastructure. In 1995, he received a surprise invitation to the International Babylon Festival and was able to revisit what little was left of Baghdad. Roberts ranges from a Hunter Thompson-like gonzo journalism to skilled historical analysis, untangling the complicated history of Iraq and its neighbors, to intrepid interviews, discussing movies and religion with a frightening array of madmen, from Hussein himself, the man "whose mother looked like Anthony Quinn playing Mother Teresa," to Assad Bayoud al-Tamimi, the less-than-benevolent father figure of the Islamic Jihad. At once chillingly horrifying and hysterically funny, The Demonic Comedy is a unique travel memoir, an eyewitness testament to the horrors of dictatorship and the devastation of war.

• Rank: #153425 in Books
• Published on: 1997
• Binding: Hardcover
• 294 pages

Shock and Alarm: What it was really like at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq

Shock and Alarm: What it was really like at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq
Dave Bailey (Author), Hugh Iwanicki (Author)

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Shock and Alarm: What it was really like at the US Embassy in Iraq is a riveting behind-the-scenes exposé of daily life at the Baghdad Diplomatic Compound in 2009, providing an insightful look at the culture clash taking place between the Islamic world and the West.

This is Hugh Iwanicki's personal story of the eleven months he served as a performance auditor for the Office of the Inspector General at the Embassy. His journal of unforgettable experiences juxtapose the mundane with the bizarre, moving from discussions of constitutional law with Sharia attorneys to several near-death experiences, as well as the strange bedfellow’s tale of a regional embassy housed in a Shiite-owned "Temporary Marriage Honeymoon Hotel." For comic relief, there are also the misadventures of the Blackwater contractors, Marines, diplomats, and plumbers who inhabited the Green Zone and made the best of the Coalition embassy parties, where the women, though far outnumbered, were in full control of the men. And then there’s the story of how the Embassy got an unlimited supply of free beer, thanks to a Sharia law against alcohol.

Iwanicki’s startling autobiographical account brings to light the human, the brutal, and the bewildering sides of life among the Iraqis, Jordanians, and Kuwaitis, as well as the mind-bending ironies and paradoxes encountered by the jumbled crew that lived within the confines known as the US Embassy in Iraq. Shock and Alarm pulls back the curtain on the bunker mentality of “the prison,” where a grinding monotony was pierced by near-daily rocket attacks and week-long sand-storms. It also reflects on Iwanicki’s first-hand experiences of the Middle East's Islamic culture, framing disturbing questions about America’s engagement in Iraq and with Islam itself.

While readers of all backgrounds and interests will enjoy the fish-out-of-water humor of Iwanicki’s early adventures in Iraq, little will prepare them for his climactic awakening to a horror hiding in plain sight. Iwanicki’s story ends with a silent scream, as he discovers that the menace he thought he had escaped by returning to the US was awaiting him at home. Shock and Alarm is an urgent and heartfelt memoir that provides a much needed wake-up call to all Americans.

• Rank: #193067 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-05-06
• Released on: 2013-05-06
• Format: Kindle eBook
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The Kurds of Iraq

The Kurds of Iraq
Michiel Hegener (Author, Photographer)

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The Kurds of Iraq have been making headlines for many decades: in the eighties and early nineties mostly as victims of brutal suppression, in the mid-nineties as victims of each other's heavy in-fighting, and since then mainly through their success in achieving a high degree of independence and prosperity within Iraq. The Kurds of Iraq os a book about the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, governed by the highly autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government. The IKR has a 200,000 strong army, its own borders and border patrols, and even its very own stamps. In stark contrast with its volatile past, the IKR, often referred to as 'The Other Iraq', enjoys a high degree of safety an a booming economy.

While most books about the Kurds of Iraq focus solely on military, political and humanitarian issues, this book provides unique insights into their farming methods, the position of women, journalism, telecommunications, life in the villages, leisure and, not least, the magnificent archaeological treasures to be found there.

• Rank: #2908879 in Books
• Published on: 2010-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.96" h x .87" w x 8.86" l, 2.58 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 228 pages

• ISBN13: 9789053306178
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Another Year in Oman: Between Iraq and a Hard Place...

Another Year in Oman: Between Iraq and a Hard Place...
Matthew D. Heines (Author)
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In the second of a three book series describing his life in the Middle East after the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, the author finds he is alone again in the remote regions of Arabia. Rather inadvertently,the author becomes even further immersed in the Arab and Muslim culture of the Sultanate of Oman. Through his experiences, the author is able to describe to the casual reader the roles of women, especially their limitations and value in Arab and Muslim society. Through a number of sometimes humorous and other times, tragically pathetic schemes to maintain a sense of belonging in a world where he doesn't really belong in the first place, the author finds himself in the middle of a surrealistic liaison that no one can be sure is real, not even him! To make matters worse, the U.S. is gearing up for an invasion of Iraq to the north and everyone is looking at him (the only American in the region) with even greater suspicion. He also finds that there are a number of Iraqis who cannot wait for the U.S. to invade and free them from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. He finds that in a world of lies, deceit and hatred, there are still people, specifically the people of Oman, who are kind and caring and who have come to consider him a part of their family... ...But is it real, or is it just a dream?

• Rank: #2860977 in Books
• Published on: 2010-10-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .55" h x 9.02" w x 6.00" l, .79 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 262 pages

Axis of Evil World Tour - An American's Travels in Iran, Iraq and North Korea

Axis of Evil World Tour - An American's Travels in Iran, Iraq and North Korea
Scott Fisher (Author)
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Axis of Evil World Tour goes beyond the superficial coverage found in much of the media to bring a boots-on-the-ground look at three of the most enigmatic, difficult-to-enter countries on the planet—Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.

North Korea: Visit the tense yet quiet DMZ that divides North from South, one of the eeriest places on earth. Spend time touring Pyongyang, the showcase capital that houses the regime and its elites. Travel halfway across the country to the beautiful “Heavenly Fragrance” mountain for a visit to the surreal, cult-like “museums” housing gifts to the country’s leaders, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.

Iraq: What’s it like to live on a U.S. military base during the war in Iraq? Spend two months as part of the Iraqi Survey Group, the international team that was tasked with finding Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction.

Iran: What do Iranians think of the U.S. and Americans? You might be surprised. Travel around the country and take an inside look at Khomeini’s tomb, hear about Iran’s own fight against Al Qaeda, and take a look inside the secret world of the mullahs that really run Iran.

• Rank: #300286 in eBooks
• Published on: 2011-01-28
• Released on: 2011-01-28
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

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Uruk Countryside: Natural Setting of Urban Societies

Uruk Countryside: Natural Setting of Urban Societies
Robert McC. Adams (Author), Hans J. Nissen (Author)

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xii + 241 pp. with 83 figs. (1 map loose as issued), 4to.

• Rank: #124750 in Books
• Published on: 1972-07-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

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maripet Store The Uruk Countryside-Mesopotamia-Natural Settings Urban Societies HC/DJ 1st A very nice first edition of The Uruk Countryside, the Natural Setting of Urban Societies by Robert Adams and Hans Nissen, oversize hard cover w/dust jacket, published by U. of Chicago Press in 1972, profusely illustrated; an examination of the explosion of urban life exemplified by Uruk; 241 pages; in very good, clean and intact condition.

Road through Kurdistan;: The narrative of an engineer in Iraq,

Road through Kurdistan;: The narrative of an engineer in Iraq,
Archibald Milne Hamilton (Author)
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In 1928, Archibald Hamilton traveled to Iraqi Kurdistan, having been commissioned to build a road that would stretch from Northern Iraq, through the mountains and gorges of Kurdistan and on to the Iranian border. Now called the Hamilton Road, this was, even by today's standards, a considerable feat of engineering and remains one of the most strategically important roads in the region. In this colorful and engaging account, Hamilton describes the four years he spent overcoming immense obstacles--disease, ferocious brigands, warring tribes and bureaucratic officials--to carve a path through some of the most beautiful but inhospitable landscape in the world. Road Through Kurdistan is a classic of travel writing and an invaluable portrayal of the Iraqi Kurds themselves, and of the Kurdish regions of Northern Iraq.

• Rank: #5907694 in Books
• Published on: 1937
• Binding: Hardcover
• 331 pages

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Iraq and the Heart of the Middle East Wall Map (tubed) (Reference - Countries & Regions)

Iraq and the Heart of the Middle East Wall Map (tubed) (Reference - Countries & Regions)
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This timely two-sided map of Iraq and the Middle East features a wealth of geographic, political, natural resource, and cultural information.

SIDE ONE: Political map
The front of the map features an incredibly accurate, detailed map of political boundaries, cities and towns, major roadways, bodies of water, oil fields and pipelines, and other geographic features. Side One also includes city insets that show street plans and describe the history and cultures of Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus, and Jerusalem.

SIDE TWO: Satellite map and country facts
The map's reverse side shows an eye-catching satellite view of the region, as well as fact boxes that show each country's flag, population, economy, oil reserves, military strength, and include a brief historical and cultural description of each country. Three thematic maps also cover the region's historical conflicts, geographic concentrations of religions, and natural resources. Scale: 1:1,983,000. 36 x 23 inches (approx).

• Rank: #2876785 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Map