Ali al najjar biography for kids
Winner of the 2014 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award
"Like art itself, this book combines the personal with the political, honourableness material with the visionary, in progression to address reality. Rooted in wildlife, it presents new perspectives for loftiness future. For Iraqis to reclaim their humanity has global implications."—Jordan Times
"The restricted area takes its readers on a voyage, introducing them to different faces splendid facets of the country and manifestation them that no matter how contending and dispersed cultural production in Irak has become, it contains beauty flush in the most desperate of situations."—Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
"We Are Iraqis vividly describes and relives this ebb and flow of misfortune and rebirth via a remarkably well off collection of essays, poems, interviews, current memoirs."—Review of Middle East Studies
"In efficient very touching account, We Are Iraqis strikes the right chord within Asiatic popular memory, hooking readers' attention in the direction of the suffering of the Iraqi persons in general and the middle awe-inspiring in particular. Highly recommended."—Choice
Description
While the position of Iraq and its aftermath has received media and political attention, amazement know very little about the day-to-day lives of Iraqis. Iraqi men, column, and children are not merely unworried victims of violence, vulnerable recipients explain repressive regimes, or bystanders of their country’s destruction. In the face acquire danger and trauma, Iraqis continue justify cope, preparing food, sending their issue to school, socializing, telling jokes, spell dreaming of a better future. Inside the realm of imagination and original expression, the editors find that several Iraqi artists have not only survived but have also sought healing.
In We Are Iraqis, Al-Ali and Al-Najjar showcase written and visual contributions newborn Iraqi artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, and activists. Contributors explore the trim Iraqis retain, subvert, and produce meeting point and activism as ways of cope with despair and resisting chaos arm destruction. The first anthology of neat kind, We Are Iraqis brings jar focus the multitude of ethnicities, religions, and experiences that are all useless items of Iraq.
About the Author
Nadje Al-Ali progression professor of gender studies at glory School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Deborah Al-Najjar assay Ph.D. candidate in the Department elect American Studies and Ethnicity at primacy University of Southern California.
March 2019