Waiting for an ordinary day : the unraveling of life in Iraq / Farnaz Fassihi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fassihi, Farnaz.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Journalists--United States--Biography.

Journalists.

Fassihi, Farnaz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : PublicAffairs, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Wall Street Journal correspondent's wrenching portrait of ordinary Iraqis, their lives possessed by ?the genie of terrorism chaos and mayhem" unleashed by the American invasion.

Contents:

CONTENTS; MAP OF IRAQ IX; FOREWORD XI; FALL 2002 Finding Baghdad; 1 Yes, Yes, to Our Leader Saddam 3; 2 Nobody in Iraq Wants War 11; 3 No Problem between Sunnis and Shiites 23; 4 If You Like It, I Can Make You a Good Price 34; APRIL 2003 The Americans Call It the New Iraq, but the Iraqis Call It the Situation; 5 Sulaimaniyah, Northern Iraq 43; 6 Kirkuk 46; 7 Tikrit 49; 8 Baghdad 52; YEAR 2003 This Isn't the Way It Was Supposed to Be; 9 I Can Bring Back the Dead 57; 10 We Will Be Strong, Absolutely Strong 72; 11 The Sunnis Are Like Sheep without a Shepherd 87

12 I Think, Yes, It Will Get Better in 2004 10213 Look at How Much Freedom We Have 112; YEAR 2004If They See Me with You, They'll Kill Me; 14 My Ambulance Is Like Iraq; It Is Cursed 127; 15 Is This Freedom? Where Is Your Freedom, Mr. Bush? 136; 16 My Name Is Moonlover, So Romantic, So Free 157; 17 A Place of No Dreams 165; 18 Imagine If New York Were Baghdad 180; 19 No Informal Guests Are Invited Here 183; 20 He Sits All Day Waiting for Someone to Die 190; 21 This Is a Holy City; I Have to Respect All the Laws of Islam 198; 22 Do We Stay or Do We Leave? 205

23 You Go into a City Like This Already Dead, and You Fight Your Way Out 21024 A Place of Mortars and Bullets 214; YEAR 2005 Our House May Never Be Safe for Us; 25 When They Say, Pick This Person, We Obey 221; 26 Every Good Muslim Woman MustThink This Way, My Dear 236; 27 You Are Next; Leave the House as Soon as You Can 248; 28 If the Teacher Asks, Tell Her I Was Kidnapped 257; 29 Our Life Here Is Not Real Living 267; Epilogue 274; E-MAIL TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS, SEPTEMBER 2004 281; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 287

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-13659-7

9786613136596

0-7867-2618-0

OCLC:

299145717