Title
Night draws near : Iraq's people in the shadow of America's war / Anthony Shadid.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0805076026
Publication Details
New York : Henry Holt, 2005.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 424 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Item Number
9780805076028
Call Number
DS79.76 .S52 2005
Alternate Call Number
15.75
Dewey Decimal Classification
956.7044/31
Summary
From the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, an account of ordinary people caught between the struggles of nations. The Washington Post's Shadid went to Iraq, neither embedded with soldiers nor briefed by politicians. Because he is fluent in Arabic, Shadid--an Arab American born and raised in Oklahoma--was able to disappear into the divided, dangerous worlds of Iraq. Day by day, as the American dream of freedom clashed with Arab notions of justice, he pieced together the human story of ordinary Iraqis weathering the terrible dislocations and tragedies of war. Through the lives of men and women, Sunnis and Shiites, American sympathizers and outraged young jihadists newly transformed into martyrs, Shadid shows us the journey of defiant, hopeful, resilient Iraq, and how Saddam's downfall paved the way not only for democracy but also for an Islamic reawakening and jihad.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-401) and index.
Before
The City of peace
Tabaghdada
The American invasion
What's written on your forehead
Like a flower
A dark, dark tunnel
A daughter's diary
For you, Iraq
Aftermath
Dry bread with tea
The blood of Sadr
The occupation
A very, very, very, very, bad neighborhood
The mud gets wetter
If you want a gazelle, take a rabbit
A bad Muslim
Baghdad is your city
Oil and punks
Myths of resistance.
