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THURA&#;S DIARY is one of my Challenge books.
We&#;ve all seen the headlines. We know about Iraq, and what happened there in , what&#;s still going on there today. We know the phrase &#;Shock and Awe,&#; and what it means. Or do we? We think we do, from what we see in the newspaper and on television. But there&#;s so much more to it than bringing down a dictator. On the news, we see that there&#;s violence in Iraq, but mostly we&#;re supposed to see the good things: the women with ink-stained fingers after voting, the statue of Saddam being toppled in Baghdad.
There&#;s so much more to it than that. Shock and Awe doesn&#;t tell you how many people have died as a result of what George W Bush has done in Iraq. I don&#;t mean soldiers; their deaths are tragic, but few compared to civilians. The people of Iraq have been freed from Saddam, but they have lost stability, the feeling of being safe outside their doors.
Just ask Thura Al-Windawi. This nineteen-year-old Baghdad girl kept a diary all through the days leading up to the invasion, to the coalition forces taking Baghdad, to losing people she loved in the war, to returning home. Her diary shows us what was going on that the media didn&#;t tell us. We were told that Bush was doing a good thing by bringing democracy and freedom to Iraq. In Thura&#;s eyes, the coalition forces may have brought freedom, but the Iraqi people saw it as a freedom from law and order. Soon, it wasn&#;t just coalition forces causing the deaths of Iraqis; it was Iraqis killing Iraqis. Instability and violence became the norm. They had trouble getting supplies for her diabetic sister, Aula. Food and water were scarce. Thura had walked the streets safetly with her friends before March She didn&#;t wear a headscarf. She was a student. Her life was firmly middle-class; she never worried about the basics. She lived a life quite similar to the lives of many Americans. And then, there was the war, which changed everything.
Reading this diary, Novelist Primary ISBN Review ISBN accelerated_reader_interest_level UG accelerated_reader_point_value 4 accelerated_reader_reading_level author_display Al-Windawi, Thura display_description format_category_redcliff Books id e21bb5-d7adc94dd itype_redcliff BOOK - HARDCOVER last_indexed TZ literary_form_full Non Fiction primary_isbn subject_facet Al-Windawi, Thura -- Diaries title_display Thura's diary : my life in wartime Iraq title_full Thura's diary : my life in wartime Iraq / Thura Al-Windawi ; translated by Robin Bray title_sub my life in wartime Iraq topic_facet Al-Windawi, ThuraThuras Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq
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