Topic: Iraq

Iraq concludes first book fair in 20 years

Iraq's first book fair in 20 years concluded on Thursday with organisers and attendees hailing it as a return for the violence-wracked country to the global literary scene.The two-week exhibition featured more than 200 publishing houses from 32 countries displaying about 37,000 ...

Book Talk: Life on base when the soldiers are gone

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - A Serbian war bride waits for her husband to return from Iraq. A widow tries to find out what happened to her husband in his final hours from the soldier whose life he saved. A wife watches from ...

Memoir describes food memories and battle scenes

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - As a journalist writing about the war in Iraq and sectarian fighting in Lebanon since 2003, Annia Ciezadlo preserved her sanity preparing meals -- much like the women in the places she covered.Her book, "Day of Honey: ...
Iraqi shoe thrower signs his first book in Beirut, says he is suing Iraq's PMThe Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush says he is suing Iraq's prime minister for his detention and alleged torture during the nine ...

Ron Suskind

Ron Suskind is a writer whose latest book is entitled The Way of the World . About Ron Suskind Published in August 2008 , The Way of the World is a book that focuses on the White House fabricating a cause for ...

Off the Press

The article lists recently published books related to the military, national security, and warfare including " Soldiers' Accounts From the Civil War to Iraq," edited by Donald Anderson, and "The Limits of Power: New York: New York: Osprey Publishing, 2008. New York: ...

Origins of contemporary collecting

Even though some of the elements of modern book collecting-a supply of fine books, book acquisition as a competitive and prestigious activity, appreciation for the book as object-existed in the ancient world, books were scarce and expensive handmade items, and collecting was ...
When I began seriously writing poetry almost seven years ago, it was a form of therapy for me. We knew that he would deploy, but there were rumors that the 4th ID would deploy to Iraq. I considered the war in Iraq ...
Lieutenant Charles Acland is serving in Iraq when a roadside bomb shatters the life of him and his colleagues. Acland was living in the area when the first murders took place and, lo and behold, now his is back, another has occurred. ...
Bush says in new book he thought about running for re-election with someone besides CheneyFormer President George W. Bush says in his new memoir that he considered running for re-election in 2004 without Dick Cheney as his vice presidential candidate. After much ...
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