Title
Alfombra voladora sobre Bagdad : Jaber, Hala
- Publication date
- > 2009
- Topics
- Jaber, Hala, Iraq War, 2003-2011 — Personal narratives, British, Orphans — Iraq — Baghdad, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Spanish language materials, Huérfanos — Irak — Bagdad, Irak — Condiciones sociales — Siglo XXI, Orphans, Social conditions, Invasión de Irak, 2003- — Relatos personales británicos, Invasión de Irak, 2003-, Iraq — Social conditions — 21st century, Iraq, Iraq — Baghdad
- Publisher
- Barcelona : Roca Editorial
- Language
- Spanish
- Item Size
- 559.1M
287 pages ; 23 cm
“Zahra, aged 3, and Hawra, just a few months old were the only survivors of a missile strike in Baghdad in 2003. Their parents and their five siblings all died. Unable to have children herself, Hala Jaber, an award-winning foreign correspondent, was determined to do all she could to help them. Sent to Iraq by the Sunday Times to cover the war, the last thing she expected was to find herself trying to save two little girls who had lost everything. But what happened next tells us far more about that conflict than any news bulletin ever could. Moreover, as a Lebanese and a Muslim, but the employee of a London paper, Hala is in the privileged position of being able to straddle two very different worlds and explain one to the other”–Publisher’s description
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