Being Kurdish in a Hostile World

Ayub Nuri Muhammed Salih (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2017
University of Regina Press (Verlag)
978-0-88977-494-0 (ISBN)

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A stringer for The Washington Post and The New York Times, Ayub Nuri's work on the front lines in Iraq has been portrayed in best-selling books by award-winning journalists. Now he tells his own story, and that of his people, the Kurds.

In Being Kurdish in a Hostile World, Ayub Nuri writes of growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, of Saddam Hussein's chemical attack that killed thousands in Nuri's home town of Halabja, of civil war, of living in refugee camps, and of years of starvation that followed the UN's sanctions. The story begins with the historic betrayal by the French and British that deprived the Kurds of a country of their own. Nuri recounts living through the 2003 American invasion and the collapse of Hussein's totalitarian rule, and how, for a brief period, he felt optimism for the future. Then came bloody sectarian violence, and recently, the harrowing ascent of ISIS, which Nuri reported from Mosul.

Canadian journalist Ayub Nuri learned English at a young age and became an interpreter before studying Journalism at Columbia University and Global Politics at York University in Toronto. He has covered the Middle East for western media organizations since 2003.

The Wrong Place
The Mud House
The Dry Mulberry
One Drop of Blood
The Tobacco Farm
A Stray Black Dog
Escape
Saryas Camp
Two Hotheaded Men
Winds of Death
The Second Camp
Return
Shining Shoes
Revenge
A Poisonous Legacy
The Second Exodus
Hunger
The Wrong Colour
Homemade Guns
My First Words in English
Shortwave Radio
Meeting My Hero
Looking for a Job
One Spy Among Many
The Last War
Crossing a River
Chasing the Front Line
Thank You, Mr. Bush
Thieves or American Allies?
Inside Saddam’s House
My First Time in Baghdad
The Prison Town
A Dream Come True
Disturbing the Bones
Marshes and Shrines
Driving in the Wrong Country
Smugglers Between Heaven and Hell
Picking Up the Pieces
They Came to Baghdad
Feasting on Scraps
The Honeymoon Ends
My Name is Osama
Silent Grief
A Family Doomed
From Insurgency to Civil War
Wild Rabbits
Settling Old Scores
Back to Square One
Lucky Survivor
The Red Zone
Out of the Ashes
The Impending Split

Acknowledgements

Chronology of Historical Events

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2018
Verlagsort	Regina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-88977-494-3 / 0889774943
ISBN-13	978-0-88977-494-0 / 9780889774940
Zustand	Neuware