Freya Stark in Iraq and Kuwait - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freya Stark in Iraq and Kuwait write by Freya Stark. This book was released on 1994. Freya Stark in Iraq and Kuwait available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early 1930s, Freya Stark held her only journalist's job, as a sub-editor on the Baghdad Times, where she published her first book, Baghdad Sketches. Her photographs of the Yazidis are unique, and her travels in Kurdistan now seem particularly poignant. In Kuwait she photographed pearl fishers, the Marsh Arabs and various residents of the capital city.
Baghdad Sketches
Baghdad Sketches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Baghdad Sketches write by Freya Stark. This book was released on 1996. Baghdad Sketches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the fall of 1928, thirty-five year-old Freya Stark set out on her first journey to the Middle East. She spent most of the next four years in Iraq and Persia, visiting ancient and medieval sites, and traveling alone through some of the wilder corners of the region.
Improbable Women
Improbable Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Improbable Women write by William Woods Cotterman. This book was released on 2013-10-22. Improbable Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Zenobia was the third-century Syrian queen who rebelled against Roman rule. Before Emperor Aurelian prevailed against her forces, she had seized almost one-third of the Roman Empire. Today, her legend attracts thousands of visitors to her capital, Palmyra, one of the great ruined cities of the ancient world. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the time of Ottoman rule, travel to the Middle East was almost impossible for Westerners. That did not stop five daring women from abandoning their conventional lives and venturing into the heart of this inhospitable region. Improbable Women explores the lives of Hester Stanhope, Jane Digby, Isabel Burton, Gertrude Bell, and Freya Stark, narrating the story of each woman’s pilgrimage to Palmyra to pay homage to the warrior queen. Although the women lived in different time periods, ranging from the eighteenth century to the mid–twentieth century, they all had middle- to upper-class British backgrounds and overcame great societal pressures to pursue their independence. Cotterman situates their lives against a backdrop of the Middle Eastern history that was the setting for their adventures. Divided into six sections, one devoted to Zenobia and one on each of the five women, Improbable Women is a fascinating glimpse into the experiences and characters of these intelligent, open-minded, and free-spirited explorers.
Yasmeena's Choice
Yasmeena's Choice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yasmeena's Choice write by Jean P. Sasson. This book was released on 2013. Yasmeena's Choice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Yasmeena was an innocent abroad. She was a college educated, English-speaking flight attendant graced with an unusual amount of confidence and sophistication. She was also a virgin and a conservative Muslim daughter and sister. When Yasmeena's flight out of Kuwait was delayed, it was because Saddam Hussein had just invaded Kuwait. Iraqi soldiers threw her into a woman's prison where the guards committed ghastly sexual attacks and tortured the women in excruciating ways.
Love In A Torn Land
Love In A Torn Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love In A Torn Land write by Jean Sasson. This book was released on 2011-12-31. Love In A Torn Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq. One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They were followed by sinister canisters falling to the ground, bringing fear and death. It was 1987, and Saddam Hussein had ordered his cousin 'Chemical Ali' to bombard Joanna's village, Bergalou, with chemical weapons. Temporarily blinded in the attack, Joanna was rescued by her husband, a Kurdish freedom fighter. After being caught in another bombardment and left for dead in the rubble, they managed to flee over the mountains in a harrowing escape. Now living in the UK and working for British Airways, Joanna has told the story of her eventful life to Jean Sasson, the bestselling chronicler of oppressed women's lives in the Princess trilogy and Mayada. Love in a Torn Land is published while the world watches the trial of the notorious 'Chemical Ali', Saddam Hussein's most bloodthirsty henchman, for crimes including the genocide of the Kurdish people.
