Thura’s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq by Thura Al-Windawi, translated by Robin Bray [in AsianWeek]
30 Apr, by in Iraqi, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers
While the premise of a young girl’s diary about surviving war in contemporary Iraq is promising – if not necessary in order to put an innocent human face to the so-called ‘war on terrorism’...