{"product_id":"baghdad-burning-a-young-womans-diary-from-a-war-zone","title":"Baghdad Burning - A Young Woman's Diary from a War Zone","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Riverbend\u003cbr\u003eForeword\/Introductio: Ahdaf Soueif\/James Ridgeway\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kali\/Women Unlimited\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2007\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 286\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8188965340\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn August 2003, a 25 year old Iraqi woman calling herself Riverbend provided eyewitness accounts of the bombings, kidnappings and night-time raids by US soldiers that constitute daily life in Baghdad. Her journal has gathered a worldwide audience hungry for news unfiltered by the mainstream media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth personal and political, Riverbend writes of the impact on her family, of the Abu Ghraib prison abuses, of how the rights of women are falling victim to emergent fundamentalisms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescribing the reality of regime change in Iraq in a voice in turn outraged and witty, both hard-hitting and deeply moving, Riverbend bears witness to the events shaping the fate of her homeland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnyone who cares about the war in Iraq must read this book.\u003cbr\u003e-Susan Sarandon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePassionate, frustrated, sarcastic, and sometimes hopeful…Riverbend is most compelling when she give cultural object lessons in everything from the changing status of Iraqi women to Ramadan, the Iraqi educational system, the significance of date palms and the details from a perspective too often overlooked, ignored, or suppressed.\u003cbr\u003e-Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a voice that grips with drama and cuts to core with humour, Riverbend reports the personal side of war as no other account I know of does. Anyone who cares about the war in Iraq must read this book.\u003cbr\u003e-Susan Sarandon\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Riverbend \/ Kali\/Women Unlimited \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153808159088,"sku":"19945","price":25.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/19945.jpg?v=1793914361","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/baghdad-burning-a-young-womans-diary-from-a-war-zone","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}