Being Kurdish in a Hostile World

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Pub Date 16 Sep 2017 | Archive Date 02 Mar 2018

Description

In Being Kurdish in a Hostile World, Ayub Nuri writes of growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, of Saddam Hussein's chemical attack that killed thousands in Nuri's home town of Halabja, of civil war, of living in refugee camps, and of years of starvation that followed the UN's sanctions.


The story begins with the historic betrayal by the French and British that deprived the Kurds of a country of their own.


Nuri recounts living through the 2003 American invasion and the collapse of Hussein's totalitarian rule, and how, for a brief period, he felt optimism for the future. Then came bloody sectarian violence, and recently, the harrowing ascent of ISIS, which Nuri reported from Mosul.

In Being Kurdish in a Hostile World, Ayub Nuri writes of growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, of Saddam Hussein's chemical attack that killed thousands in Nuri's home town of Halabja, of civil war...


Advance Praise

"Nuri carries scars from all of Iraq’s conflicts, but they never get in the way of his curiosity, courage and compassion. His stories from Iraq are fables of a long war that few in the west understand; his fluency of language and culture builds a bridge between all the peoples of Iraq and the foreigners entangled there. I don’t know of any writer like him." - Quil Lawrence, former Baghdad Bureau Chief, NPR, and author of Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East 

"Richly told with soul by an insider who has lived his history." - Kevin McKiernan, veteran foreign correspondent, photographer, and documentary filmmaker, and author of The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland

"Spanning from the 1970s through the 2010s, the book navigates a maelstrom of tragedy, perseverance, and self-determination as Nuri grows up, lives, and works as a Kurd in Iraq. Deft, heartbreaking, and deeply thoughtful, this book is the desperately needed firsthand account of a people and a place often rendered invisible or ignored by the West." - Foreword Reviews, advance review (Sept/Oct 2017) 

"Nuri carries scars from all of Iraq’s conflicts, but they never get in the way of his curiosity, courage and compassion. His stories from Iraq are fables of a long war that few in the west...


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- media coverage in New York Times, NPR, New York Review of Books, Huffington Post, and Middle Eastern bureaus in other major U.S. publications 

- media coverage in New York Times, NPR, New York Review of Books, Huffington Post, and Middle Eastern bureaus in other major U.S. publications 


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ISBN 9780889774940
PRICE $21.95 (USD)
PAGES 350

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