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Author Omar, Manal M.

Title Barefoot in Baghdad : a story of identity--my own and what it means to be a woman in chaos / Manal M. Omar.

Publication Info. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.48 OM1    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  305.48 OMAR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.4869 OMA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B OMAR MANAL O    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-OMAR, M.    Check Shelf
Description xxi, 244 pages ; 23 cm
Note "Includes bonus reading group guide"--P. [4] of cover.
Summary Chronicles the experiences of an American aid worker and rights activist who worked in Iraq following the 2003 invasion, helping local Iraqi women whose lives had been devastated by the violence and chaos surrounding them.
Contents The opening -- Road trip -- Breaking the barriers -- Choosing sides -- A lot hotter in hell -- Hysteria of hope -- Eyes wide shut -- A place of fantasies -- Fern -- The negotiating chips -- The whistle-blower -- Playing with fire -- Locked in -- Four men and a lady -- Breaking point -- Purple thumbs don't wash off -- Iraqi brides -- Epilogue: Dawn approaches.
Subject Women -- Iraq -- Social conditions.
Muslim women -- Iraq.
Muslim women -- United States.
Iraq -- Social conditions.
ISBN 9781402237218 paperback
1402237219 paperback
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