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The author writes about growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, family members dying in a chemical attack, civil war, living in refugee camps, years of starvation that followed UN sanctions, living through the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, and the collapse of Saddam Hussein's totalitarian rule, as well as discussing the history behind the Kurds being denied a country of their own and the ascent of ISIS.Member Reviews
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- Canonical title
- Being Kurdish in a Hostile World
- Important places
- Kurdistan
- Important events
- Iran-Iraq War
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- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 956.67 — History & geography History of Asia Middle East Asia: Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan Eastern Turkey Southeastern central Turkey, Turkish Kurdistan [for Iranian Kurdistan 955.54, Iraqi Kurdistan 956.92]
- LCC
- DS59 .K86 .N87 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Middle East. Southwestern Asia. Ancient Orient. Ethnography
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- English
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