The Iraqi Nights - 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 The Iraqi Nights write by Dunya Mikhail. This book was released on 2014-05-27. The Iraqi Nights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A stunning new collection by one of Iraq’s brightest poetic voices The Iraqi Nights is the third collection by the acclaimed Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail. Taking The One Thousand and One Nights as her central theme, Mikhail personifies the role of Scheherazade the storyteller, saving herself through her tales. The nights are endless, seemingly as dark as war in this haunting collection, seemingly as endless as war. Yet the poet cannot stop dreaming of a future beyond the violence of a place where “every moment / something ordinary / will happen under the sun.” Unlike Scheherazade, however, Mikhail is writing, not to escape death, but to summon the strength to endure. Inhabiting the emotive spaces between Iraq and the U.S., Mikhail infuses those harsh realms with a deep poetic intimacy. The author’s vivid illustrations — inspired by Sumerian tablets — are threaded throughout this powerful book.
The Iraqi Nights
The Iraqi Nights - 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 The Iraqi Nights write by Dunya Mikhail. This book was released on 2014-05-27. The Iraqi Nights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A stunning new collection by one of Iraq's brightest poetic voices
The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq - 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 The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq write by Dunya Mikhail. This book was released on 2018-03-27. The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from Daesh Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won’t convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women. The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women—who’ve lost their families and loved ones, who’ve been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons—and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a beekeeper, who uses his knowledge of the local terrain, along with a wide network of transporters, helpers, and former cigarette smugglers, to bring these women, one by one, through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, back into safety. In the face of inhuman suffering, this powerful work of nonfiction offers a counterpoint to Daesh’s genocidal extremism: hope, as ordinary people risk their own lives to save those of others.
1001 Nights in Iraq
1001 Nights in Iraq - 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 1001 Nights in Iraq write by Shant Kenderian. This book was released on 2007-06-05. 1001 Nights in Iraq available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shant Kenderian's visit to Baghdad in 1980, at age seventeen, was supposed to be a short one -- just enough time to make peace with his estranged father before returning to his home in the United States. But then Saddam Hussein invaded Iran and sealed off Iraq's borders to every man of military age -- including Shant. Suddenly forced onto the front lines, his two-week visit turned into a nightmare that lasted for ten years. 1001 Nights in Iraq presents a human story that provides unique insight into a country and culture that we only get a hint of in the headlines. After surviving the horrors of the Iran-Iraq War, Shant was then forced to fight on the front lines of Desert Storm without being given the proper equipment, including a gun, but miraculously survived to be captured by the Americans and become a POW. He underwent starvation, heavy interrogations, and solitary confinement, but what broke him in the end was his love affair with a female American soldier. Yet throughout this whole ordeal, Shant never lost his respect for people, his faith in God, or his sense of humor.
In Her Feminine Sign
In Her Feminine Sign - 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 In Her Feminine Sign write by Dunya Mikhail. This book was released on 2019-07-30. In Her Feminine Sign available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A brilliant poetic exploration of language and gender, place, and time, seen through the mirror of exile In Her Feminine Sign follows on the heels of Dunya Mikhail's devastating account of Daesh kidnappings and killings of Yazidi women in Iraq, The Beekeeper. It is the first book she has written in both Arabic and English, a process she talks about in her preface, saying "The poet is at home in both texts, yet she remains a stranger." With a subtle simplicity and disquieting humor reminiscent of Wislawa Szymborska and an unadorned lyricism wholly her own, Mikhail shifts between her childhood in Baghdad and her present life in Detroit, between Ground Zero and a mass grave, between a game of chess and a flamingo. At the heart of the book is the symbol of the tied circle, the Arabic suffix taa-marbuta—a circle with two dots above it that determines a feminine word, or sign. This tied circle transforms into the moon, a stone that binds friendship, birdsong over ruins, three kidnapped women, and a hymn to Nisaba, the goddess of writing. A section of "Iraqi haiku" unfolds like Sumerian symbols carved onto clay tablets, transmuted into the stuff of our ordinary, daily life. In another poem, Mikhail defines the Sumerian word for freedom, Ama-ar-gi, as "what seeps out / from the dead into our dreams."
