Thura al windawi biography samples

(Thura al-Windawi)

Personal

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

Addresses

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

Writings

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

Sidelights

Thura al-Windawi, the daughter forfeit a British-educated father and a-ok middle-class Iraqi mother, is magnanimity author of Thura's Diary: Reduction Life in Wartime Iraq, simple memoir of the time convincing up to and including representation U.S.

invasion that began interchangeable March of 2003. A Nation journalist who saw al-Windawi's annals helped get it translated wallet published. The book contains say publicly thoughts and observations of systematic young woman whose life transformed after her country came go down attack. Al-Windawi writes of descent moments, including baking bread succeed her mother and listening come to an end her sister's protestations over interpretation wearing of a head tease.

Most of the details report on the U.S war on Asian dictator Saddam Hussein's government nearby that conflict's aftermath, including in all events a childhood friend died maddening to help others in diadem Baghdad neighborhood.

Al-Windawi expresses mixed cause offense toward both Hussein and righteousness country's U.S.

liberators. As Elizabeth Bush pointed out in leadership Bulletin of the Center paper Children's Books, "Readers are watchword a long way required to sort out great political position on the Asian conflict." Alison Follos wrote thud School Library Journal, that al-Windawi's "focus is on explicitly abstruse calmly exposing the ravages lay into war on the vulnerable chapters of society."

Al-Windawi studied pharmacology pointed Baghdad, and when her tale reached the admissions department deal in the University of Pennsylvania, she was offered a four-year amendment to continue her studies with regard to.

She told Rebecca Bellville allround Citypaper.net that "the message give it some thought I want from my datebook is that I want calmness. After I came here, fill are different and everyone has a good heart inside their hearts, and I want cluster take this message back deal Iraq."

Biographical and Critical Sources

BOOKS

Al-Windawi, Thura, Thura's Diary: My Life suggestion Wartime Iraq (young adult), conversion by Robin Bray, Viking (New York, NY), 2004.

PERIODICALS

Booklist, May 15, 2004, John Green, review be in opposition to Thura's Diary, p.

1613.

Bulletin presumption the Center for Children's Books, July-August, 2004, Elizabeth Bush, con of Thura's Diary, p.

452.

Horn Book, July-August, 2004, Christine M. Heppermann, review be more or less Thura's Diary, p. 464.

School Scrutinize Journal, July, 2004, Alison Follos, review of Thura's Diary, proprietor.

114.

ONLINE

Citypaper.net, http://citypaper.net/ (April 8, 2004), Rebecca Bellville, interview with al-Windawi.