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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening with John Ross, editor of the forthcoming 
 release from Haymarket Books, Iraqi Girl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in 
 Iraq.\n\nAn excerpt from Iraqi Girl:\n\n"I forgot what peace looks like. 
 What the street looks like. What the sky in the night look like. What my 
 relatives look like. Sometimes I just think that if you could see what my 
 eyes see, if you could hear what my ears hear, you would be able to 
 understand what I mean."\n\nThese are the words of IraqiGirl, a teenage 
 girl blogging from the city of Mosul, Iraq, as the chaos and violence of 
 military occupation unfold in the aftermath of the American invasion. In a 
 narrative charged with anger, IraqiGirl wants her readers to understand 
 what life is really like under military occupation.\n\n"Let’s go back," 
 she writes, "to my un-normal life." And here IraqiGirl allows us to 
 discover a story the Western media rarely allow us a glimpse of: the story 
 of how the Iraq War has shattered lives and broken hearts. But we also 
 discover, in her personal reflections on family, friendship, and community, 
 the resilience of one girl to not only survive, but to discover, amidst the 
 devastation of war, a future worth living for.\n\nAs she writes: "For the 
 sake of the smile that was given to no one but me, for the sake of my 
 grandpa and for the sake of my country and for the sake of my religion and 
 for the sake of my God... I want to know my destination."\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/27/18612622.php
SUMMARY:John Ross on Iraqi Girl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore\n888 Valencia Street\nSan Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/27/18612622.php
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