ATHENAEUM BOEKHANDEL
Pim van Harten & Roel Meijer (red.) –
Irak in chaos.
Botsende visies op een humanitaire ramp.
Aksant - 295 blz. Ing... » 

ATHENAEUM BOEKHANDEL
Pim van Harten & Roel Meijer (red.) –
Irak in chaos.
Botsende visies op een humanitaire ramp.
Aksant - 295 blz. Ingenaaid - € 22,50
In deze bundle laten Nederlandse en Irakese wetenschappers, journalisten, activisten, militairen, diplomaten en politici hun licht schijnen over de achtergronden van de recente Irakese burgeroorlog.
Henri Hemming –
Misadventure in the Middle East. Travels as Tramp, Artist and Spy.
Nicholas Brealy - 298 blz. - Ingenaaid - € 20,10
A tale of a hapless young artist, a truck called Yasmine and an extraordinary journey, creating a portrait of the post-9/11 Middle East that transports the reader into the human heart of the region and beyond the stereotypes.
Naim Kattan -
Farewell, Babylon.
Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad.
Souvenir Press - 218 blz.- Gebonden - € 23,75
This is a memoir of identity, of growing up in a tumultuous polyglot society, of change both personal and societal, of finding one’s place in life. Here is a fascninating portrait of a people, a city, a state, and a culture that are as troubled today as kattan found them sixty years ago. «