Download or read book Destination Baghdad written by Gerri Eickhof and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerri Eickhof traveled several times to Baghdad for the NOS News before, during and after the war in Iraq. Dozens of television reports were the result of it. But he also kept a diary. After much hesitation, he has now decided to publish his writings. It delivers an intense, bright, sometimes disturbing portrait of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, of Iraq under attack and of Iraq amongst the chaos that followed. But what is equally penetrating and sometimes shocking is the picture that emerged from the journalistic practice. Moreover, Destination Baghdad is a very humanistic book that offers laughter and tears. As Eickhof writes; "War Reporting and heroism are not synonymous, the real Tin tin is a cartoon character." Gerri Eickhof has worked for over ten years as a general reporter for the NOS News. Although most of his reports happen in the Netherlands, he has achieved particular fame with reports from abroad; the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Burundi, the Congo, Sudan, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. They were all flashpoints where his eyes and ears relayed and tried to explain his observations for Dutch viewers. Gerri Eickhof studied cultural anthropology in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Bradford (UK). He lives in Amsterdam and has one son.
Download or read book Baghdad written by Justin Marozzi and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions which have brought terrible bloodshed. This is the history of its storytellers and its tyrants, of its philosophers and conquerors. Here, in the first new history of Baghdad in nearly 80 years, Justin Marozzi brings to life the whole tumultuous history of what was once the greatest capital on earth.
Download or read book Baghdad Trucker written by Kevin Noble and published by Northern Writers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 8 55 to Baghdad written by Andrew Eames and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A winning blend of travelogue and literary biography” by a British journalist who travels the journey Agatha Christie once did from London to Iraq. (Entertainment Weekly) With her marriage to her first husband over, Agatha Christie decided to take a much needed holiday; the Caribbean had been her intended destination, but a conversation at a dinner party with a couple who had just returned from Iraq changed her mind. Five days later she was off on a completely different trajectory. Merging literary biography with travel adventure, and ancient history with contemporary world events, Andrew Eames tells a riveting tale and reveals fascinating and little-known details of this exotic chapter in the life of Agatha Christie. His own trip from London to Baghdad--a journey much more difficult to make in 2002 with the political unrest in the Middle East and the war in Iraq, than it was in 1928--becomes intertwined with Agatha's, and the people he meets could have stepped out of a mystery novel. Fans of Agatha Christie will delight in Eames' description of the places and events that appeared in and influenced her fiction--and armchair travelers will thrill in the exotica of the journey itself. “Agatha Christie fans, as well as connoisseurs of fine travel writing, will relish British journalist Eames's gripping, humorous and eye-opening account of his train and bus trip across Europe and the Middle East on the eve of the second Gulf War.” Publisher’s Weekly Second;Iraq;Gulf;war;Kurds;Armenians;Palestinians;English;travel;writer;writing;1928;bestselling;mystery;author;English;crime;writer;Europe;passenger;train;memoir;literary;biography;adventure;travel;history;autobiography;holiday;Middle;East;Damascus;Ur;Syria;archaeology TRV026090 TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary BIO007000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures BIO026000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs TRV015000 TRAVEL / Middle East / General 9781468306415 Candlemoth Ellory, R.J.
Download or read book Baghdad An Urban History through the Lens of Literature written by Iman Al-Attar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Baghdad has been viewed as a battleground for political conflicts; this interpretation has heavily influenced writings on the city. This book moves away from these perspectives to present an interdisciplinary exploration into the urban history of Baghdad through the lens of literature. It argues that urban literature is an effective complementary source to conventional historiography, using in-depth analysis of texts, poems and historical narratives of non-monumental urban spaces to reveal an underexamined facet of the city’s development. The book focuses on three key themes, spatial, nostalgic and reflective, to offer a new approach to the study of Baghdad’s history, with a view to establishing and informing further strategies for future urban developments. Beginning with the first planned city in the eighth century, it looks at the urban transformations that influenced building trends and architectural styles until the nineteenth century. It will appeal to academics and researchers in interdisciplinary fields such as architecture, urban history, Islamic studies and Arabic literature.
Download or read book Babylon s Ark written by Lawrence Anthony and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing story of the soldiers, conservationists, and ordinary Iraqis who united to save the animals of the Baghdad Zoo When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, caught in the crossfire at the heart of the city. Once Anthony entered Iraq he discovered that hostilities and uncontrolled looting had devastated the zoo and its animals. Working with members of the zoo staff and a few compassionate U.S. soldiers, he defended the zoo, bartered for food on war-torn streets, and scoured bombed palaces for desperately needed supplies. Babylon's Ark chronicles Anthony's hair-raising efforts to save a pride of Saddam's lions, close a deplorable black-market zoo, run ostriches through shoot-to-kill checkpoints, and rescue the dictator's personal herd of Thoroughbred Arabian horses. A tale of the selfless courage and humanity of a few men and women living dangerously for all the right reasons, Babylon's Ark is an inspiring and uplifting true-life adventure of individuals on both sides working together for the sake of magnificent wildlife caught in a war zone.
Download or read book Baghdad Points East written by Robert Joseph Casey and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Vacation in Baghdad and Beyond written by Ardemis Donikian and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I did somehow fly from “Baghdad by the Tigris” to “Baghdad by the Bay” and I am ready to take you on an adventurous non-imaginary journey and shed some light on my nation. With a sense of nostalgia I invite you to embark on my magic carpet as we will visit the major highlights of the country in order to gain insight and immerse ourselves in a world still unknown to many. We will travel back in time as memories of the past shall come alive as I recount experiences of my life in Iraq to enrich your knowledge about the country.
Download or read book Living in Romantic Baghdad written by Ida Donges Staudt and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1924, an adventurous young couple accepted a commission to open an American school for boys in Baghdad. Setting foot on Iraqi soil the very day that the Constituent Assembly convened in Baghdad to frame a constitution for the new nation, Ida Staudt and her husband Calvin witnessed the birth of this fledgling country. For the next twenty-three years, they taught hundreds of young boys whose ethnicity, religious background, and economic status were as varied as the region itself. Cultivating strong bonds with their students and their families, the Staudts were welcomed into their lives and homes, ranging from the royal palace to refugee huts and Bedouin tents. In her enlightening memoir, Staudt skillfully interweaves the political and historical setting with personal anecdotes, recalling the people she encountered and the places she explored. With vivid descriptions, she relates the complexities of the people, the grandeur of the antiquities, and the beauty of the region’s topography. Living in Romantic Baghdad evokes the city, the villages, and the communities of Iraq, capturing a unique chapter in modern Iraqi history, one marked by pluralism and tolerance, and putting a human face on a largely misunderstood country.
Download or read book They Came to Baghdad written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the talks. Into this explosive situation appears Victoria Jones, a young woman with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded spy dies in her hotel room. The only man who can save the summit is dead. Can Victoria make sense of his dying words: Lucifer…Basrah…Lefarge.…
Download or read book The Long Road to Baghdad written by Edmund Candler and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Mesopotamian campaign which includes an extensive description of the Battle of Dujaila fought on 8 March 1916, between British and Ottoman forces during the First World War.
Download or read book Premier memoire que donne devant Messieurs les Prev t des Marchands Jacques Leblanc Maitre Guimpier Fileur et Ecacheur d Or et d Argent de cette Ville Demandeur Contre le Sieur Ennemond Mogniat Negociant de cette dite Ville d fendeur written by and published by . This book was released on 1737 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jungle Submarines written by Mario B Vincent and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “And then came the elephants! He half-heard, half-saw something moving. Gigantic forms lumbering by on velveteen toes, ears aquiver, trunks aloft, sensitive nostrils twitching and turning like the periscopes on a shoal of jungle submarines.” Sometimes comical, sometimes poignant, always gripping, Jungle Submarines follows the real-life adventures of Botch as he grows up with his eccentric family – Papa the stoic, Mama the passionate, Minu the thug, Anu the stubborn, and Nini the sweet – in a country and a world that is charmingly disorganized. Papa’s job takes him and the family from the swampy jungles of Bihar to the dusty deserts of Iraq, from the cool wetness of Coonoor to the hot dryness of Hyderabad; and this pageant of life teaches Botch about happiness and sadness, glory and defeat, strength and weakness, but above all about trust and family.
Download or read book When Turkey was Turkey written by Mary A. Poynter and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glory in a Camel s Eye written by Jeffrey Tayler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dark Justice written by Jack Higgins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Higgins pits the heroic covert intelligence team of Blake Johnson and Sean Dillon against a hidden foe in a very different kind of game—with a very different set of rules.
Download or read book Iraq Through a Bullet Hole written by Issam Jameel and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2010-01-31 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique on-the-ground account of a country shattered Iraqi playwright Issam Jameel returned to Iraq after a 12-year exile. Giving up the relative safety of Jordan, he made a perilous journey to Baghdad for a reunion. Unfortunately, the reason for his trip was to grieve for his nephew, recently killed by American forces while guarding an Iraq parliament member from insurgents. Jameel also mourns the loss of a formerly secular civil society replaced by vehement sectarianism, intolerance, and ignorance. Basic human needs like food, water, and power have become an endless daily struggle amidst the shards of infrastructure. Routine tasks, such as selling a house or getting a job are fraught with peril as old scores continue to be settled on religious, ethnic, and political fronts. Everywhere he turns, people are desperate to leave, but fear for the worst. After escaping this madness, he recorded his eyewitness report, desperate to provide an honest and impartial tale of an epic tragedy which has killed more than 100,000 people and displaced many more. Today, the US government gambles with Iraq's stability by turning a blind eye to Al-Maliki's internal policy, especially after Wikileaks revealed his complicity in death squads. We are jeopardizing the hard-won political gains that the US achieved by neutralizing the Sunnis of Iraq when it converted them from fighters and boycotters to voters. The US administration fails to show much real concern for the future of democracy in Iraq except perhaps for its anxiety about Obama's promises of military withdrawal. Critics Praise "Iraq Through A Bullet Hole" "Issam Jameel's "Iraq Through A Bullet Hole" is evocative in the best sense of the word. A native Iraqi, he describes with measured sadness and authenticity the dismemberment of his country by a senseless war. His perspective on events there-both personal and general-will not be found in reporting done by the Western press. His tale reminds us that the things that matter most-family, friends, and faith can and will endure even the most severe trials. I highly recommend this book for its relevance and timelessness." --Cristobal Krusen, Author and Filmmaker "Iraq has been a focus for our attention for years now, since our armed forces went looking for nonexistent weapons of mass destruction there. The media have presented a picture-but how real is it? What is life really like in that unfortunate country? Find out by reading this book." --Robert Rich, PhD, Author of "Cancer: A Personal Challenge" "Going home is such a trivial thing to so many people in the world. This story is the revealing statement of one man that went home to find it lost in such a strife-filled region, considered by historians as the origin of modern civilization. For those who do know how difficult his journey was, they will relate to Issam's message which is one of perseverance, shared hope and a common faith in mankind that in the end, all could eventually be well. If only men would let it..." --Bill Evans, civilian contractor in Iraq More info at www.IraqThruABulletHole.com Book #5 in the Reflections of History Series from Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com BIO000000 Biography & Autobiography: General HIS027170 History: Military - Iraq War (2003-) HIS026000 History: Middle East - General
