Research Catalog

Title

Ahmad's war, Ahmad's peace : surviving under Saddam, dying in the new Iraq / Michael Goldfarb.

Author

Goldfarb, Michael.

Publication

New York : Carroll & Graf ; [Berkeley, CA] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2005.

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Description

354 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Summary

The public radio personality tells the story of his Kurdish translator, Ahmad Shawkat, who survived imprisonment and torture by Iraqi secret police only to be killed by unknown gunmen in Mosul after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.

Subject

• Shawkat, Ahmad
• Translators > Iraq
• Political prisoners > Iraq > Biography
• Kurds > Iraq > Biography
• Translators > Iraq > Biography
• Iraq > Biography
• Iraq > Ethnic relations
• Iraq > History > 1921-

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 339) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ahmad's War -- Prologue: Erbil, Kurdistan, March 19, 2003 -- "I See You Are Well Cultured" -- "All Our Politicians Are Thieves" -- "My Smoke, My Tears, My Breaths and My Words" -- "Our Real Identity Is as Iraqi People" -- "I Am Full of Proudness" -- "I See I Have a Lot of Work to Do" -- Ahmad's Life -- "It Doesn't Matter to God Whether You Are a Kurd or an Arab" -- "You Are Feeling More Free Than the Freedom We Have" -- "Life Without Problems Is Not Interesting" -- "This Is How They Strangle Us" -- "Apologize to Saddam" -- Ahmad's Peace -- "A Role to Play" -- "Salvation Has Surprised Us" -- "The Gift of Freedom" -- "Please Do Something for My Father's Blood" -- "Don't You Work for the CIA?" -- "Always Disasters Befall the Iraqi People."

ISBN

0786715154

LCCN

9780786715152

OCLC

• 61203344
• SCSB-9919239

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library