Region: Iraq

Materials from Iraq

Sindbad’s Secret

By Book Importer | Published: April 4, 2011

Sindbad the Sailor has escaped death many times and is planning to live the rest of his life on dry land. But the sea beckons, and he sets out for one final adventure. As he sails from a beautiful far-off land where people drink scented tea, a storm destroys the ship. Sindbad finds refuge on an [...]

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The Revenge of Ishtar

By Book Importer | Published: April 4, 2011

In this second volume in the Gilgamesh trilogy, Enkidu joins Gilgamesh in the quest to slay Humbaba, the monster who has attacked the city and caused great destruction, including the death of the beautiful singer, Shamat. Gilgamesh and Enkidu successfully slay the monster and in so doing, Gilgamesh attracts the attention of the goddess Ishtar. [...]

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Joha Makes a Wish: A Middle Eastern Tale

By Book Importer | Published: April 4, 2011

Joha finds a magic stick and learns that you don’t always get what you wish for.

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Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle

By Book Importer | Published: April 4, 2011

Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs’s life changed when he met Marine Major Brian Dennis. The two formed a fast friendship, made stronger by Dennis’s willingness [...]

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Santa Claus in Baghdad: Stories about Teens in the Arab World

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

A collection of eight stories, most previously published in other anthologies, about what it is like to grow up in the Middle East today.

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No Safe Place

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

Orphaned and plagued with the grief of losing everyone he loves, 15-year-old Abdul has made a long, fraught journey from his war-torn home in Baghdad, only to end up in The Jungle — a squalid, makeshift migrant community in Calais. Desperate to escape, he takes a spot in a small, overloaded England-bound boat that’s full [...]

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Saving the Baghdad Zoo

By Book Importer | Published: July 22, 2010

The baghdad zoo was once home to more than six hundred magnificent animals. But after the war in Iraq began in 2003, the city faced widespread destruction. When U. S. Army Captain William Sumner was asked to check out the state of the zoo, he found that it, too, was devastated. Hundreds of animals were [...]

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Seven Daughters and Seven Sons

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

In an ancient Arab nation, one woman dares to be different. Buran cannot — Buran will not-sit quietly at home and wait to be married to the man her father chooses. Determined to use her skills and earn a fortune, she instead disguises herself as a boy and travels by camel caravan to a distant [...]

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Sunrise over Fallujah

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion at the beginning of Operation Iraqui Freedom, and he will be the liaison between the military and the Iraqis. His time there profoundly changes him.

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Silent Music

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of all, he loves the ancient art of calligraphy. When bombs begin to fall on his city, Ali turns to his pen, writing sweeping and gliding words to the silent music that drowns out the war all around him.

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