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Rain Over Baghdad
Hala El Badry
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Description for Rain Over Baghdad
Paperback. An Egyptian journalist in Iraq witnesses Saddam's rise to power while investigating the disappearance of an Iraqi woman. Translator(s): Wahab, Farouk Abdel. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 714.
What was it like to live in Iraq before the earth-shaking events of the end of the twentieth century? The mid seventies to the late eighties witnessed Saddam Hussein's rise to power, the establishment of Kurdish autonomy in the north, and the Iraq-Iran war. It also brought an influx of oil wealth, following the 1973 war and the spike in oil prices, and a parallel influx of Arab talent, including many Egyptians, as the Egyptian left became disenchanted with Sadat. The massive migration also extended to workers and peasants, some of whom created an entire Egyptian village just outside Baghdad.We ... Read more
What was it like to live in Iraq before the earth-shaking events of the end of the twentieth century? The mid seventies to the late eighties witnessed Saddam Hussein's rise to power, the establishment of Kurdish autonomy in the north, and the Iraq-Iran war. It also brought an influx of oil wealth, following the 1973 war and the spike in oil prices, and a parallel influx of Arab talent, including many Egyptians, as the Egyptian left became disenchanted with Sadat. The massive migration also extended to workers and peasants, some of whom created an entire Egyptian village just outside Baghdad.We ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774165887
SKU
V9789774165887
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99-15
About Hala El Badry
Hala El Badry is deputy editor in chief of Egypt's radio and television magazine. She is the author of four novels, including A Certain Woman (AUC Press, 2003) and Muntaha (AUC Press, 2006). Farouk Abdel Wahab is Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Arabic at the University of Chicago. His most recent translation is Gamal al-Ghitani's The Book of Epiphanies (AUC ... Read more
Reviews for Rain Over Baghdad
"The Egyptian journalist and magazine editor, Hala El Badry, however, delivers much more in this capacious novel that enfolds multiple stories in an a temporal stream of consciousness that melds the personal and political. The reader who is willing to go with the flow will be transported into a complex web of memories that move backward and forward through five ... Read more