Meeting the New Iraq: A Memoir of Homecoming and Hope

This book is about the new Iraq, the Iraq that many say has finally after many years become a democracy, which has brought freedoms and rights, chaos and confusion. The author relates lending her skills to help Iraq progress toward a better future. She also gives an account of her feelings and experiences upon returning to her native city Baghdad, with each new encounter provoking old memories and building new foundations, and her view of the current Iraq from the perspective of someone who has lived in the United States for three decades. Finally she offers her thoughts on where Americans and Iraqis are headed together, with their lives intermingled as never before because of the recent war.

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Meeting the New Iraq: A Memoir of Homecoming and Hope

This book is about the new Iraq, the Iraq that many say has finally after many years become a democracy, which has brought freedoms and rights, chaos and confusion. The author relates lending her skills to help Iraq progress toward a better future. She also gives an account of her feelings and experiences upon returning to her native city Baghdad, with each new encounter provoking old memories and building new foundations, and her view of the current Iraq from the perspective of someone who has lived in the United States for three decades. Finally she offers her thoughts on where Americans and Iraqis are headed together, with their lives intermingled as never before because of the recent war.

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Meeting the New Iraq: A Memoir of Homecoming and Hope

Meeting the New Iraq: A Memoir of Homecoming and Hope

by Juman Kubba
Meeting the New Iraq: A Memoir of Homecoming and Hope

Meeting the New Iraq: A Memoir of Homecoming and Hope

by Juman Kubba

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Overview

This book is about the new Iraq, the Iraq that many say has finally after many years become a democracy, which has brought freedoms and rights, chaos and confusion. The author relates lending her skills to help Iraq progress toward a better future. She also gives an account of her feelings and experiences upon returning to her native city Baghdad, with each new encounter provoking old memories and building new foundations, and her view of the current Iraq from the perspective of someone who has lived in the United States for three decades. Finally she offers her thoughts on where Americans and Iraqis are headed together, with their lives intermingled as never before because of the recent war.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786470716
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 08/20/2013
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Professor and researcher Juman Kubba is an adviser on education reform in Iraq.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Mudher ­Al-­Hillawi
Preface: A Word to the Wise
Chapter I: New Year’s Eve, 2010, Baghdad
Chapter II: What Does “Democracy” Mean?
Chapter III: The Blueprint
Chapter IV: For Better or for Worse: Iraqis and Americans
Epilogue
Index
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