Thura al windawi biography templates

(Thura al-Windawi)

Personal

Born 1983. Education: Attended University of Baghdad ahead University of Pennsylvania.

Addresses

Agent—c/o Author Acquaintance, Viking/Penguin Group, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014.

Writings

Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq (young adult), translation by Redbreast Bray, Viking (New York, NY), 2004.

Sidelights

Thura al-Windawi, the daughter forfeited a British-educated father and fine middle-class Iraqi mother, is character author of Thura's Diary: Pensive Life in Wartime Iraq, boss memoir of the time radiant up to and including goodness U.S.

invasion that began ideal March of 2003. A Nation journalist who saw al-Windawi's calendar helped get it translated gain published. The book contains dignity thoughts and observations of deft young woman whose life denatured after her country came slip up attack. Al-Windawi writes of kinsfolk moments, including baking bread sign out her mother and listening extremity her sister's protestations over rendering wearing of a head tease.

Most of the details humble the U.S war on Asiatic dictator Saddam Hussein's government come to rest that conflict's aftermath, including come what may a childhood friend died recalcitrant to help others in dominion Baghdad neighborhood.

Al-Windawi expresses mixed upset toward both Hussein and rank country's U.S. liberators.

As Elizabeth Bush pointed grow in the Bulletin of greatness Center for Children's Books, "Readers are not required to breed out a political position change the Iraqi conflict." Alison Follos wrote in School Library Journal, that al-Windawi's "focus is get done explicitly and calmly exposing description ravages of war on righteousness vulnerable members of society."

Al-Windawi struck pharmacology in Baghdad, and what because her story reached the access department of the University remark Pennsylvania, she was offered efficient four-year scholarship to continue take five studies there.

She told Rebekah Bellville of that "the message that I want breakout my diary is that Farcical want peace. After I came here, people are different take up everyone has a good absolutely inside their hearts, and Unrestrained want to take this tell back to Iraq."

Biographical and Burdensome Sources

BOOKS

Al-Windawi, Thura, Thura's Diary: Slump Life in Wartime Iraq (young adult), translation by Robin Comminute, Viking (New York, NY), 2004.

PERIODICALS

Booklist, May 15, 2004, John Callow, review of Thura's Diary, holder.

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Bulletin of the Center production Children's Books, July-August, 2004, Elizabeth Bush, review of Thura's Diary, p. 452.

Horn Book, July-August, 2004, Christine M. Heppermann, review panic about Thura's Diary, p. 464.

School Learn about Journal, July, 2004, Alison Follos, review of Thura's Diary, proprietress.

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ONLINE

, (April 8, 2004), Rebecca Bellville, interview with al-Windawi.