Book Detail
Title Flying carpet of small miracles : a woman's fight to save two orphans
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Author(s)
Call No 956.7044 JAB
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ISBN
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Publisher Name Riverhood books
Publishing Year 2009
Edition 1st
Pages 282
Price 0.00 PKR
Text Language English
Available Yes, Accessions:[ G-22482 ]
Description Zahra, age three, and Hawra, only a few months old, were the only survivors of a missile strike in Baghdad in 2003 that killed the rest of their family. In London, foreign correspondent Hala Jaber was preparing to head to Iraq to cover the emerging war. After ten years spent trying to conceive, Jaber and her husband had finally resigned themselves to a childless future. Now she intended to bury her grief in her work, with some unusually dangerous reporting. Once in Iraq, though, Jaber found hers
Keywords Iraq War-Personal Narratives; Iraq War-Children; GB-Journalist-Biography; Hala Jaber