{"id":4223,"date":"2004-04-30T12:09:24","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T16:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:48:29","slug":"thuras-diary-my-life-in-wartime-iraq-by-thura-al-windawi-translated-by-robin-bray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/thuras-diary-my-life-in-wartime-iraq-by-thura-al-windawi-translated-by-robin-bray\/","title":{"rendered":"Thura&#8217;s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq by Thura Al-Windawi, translated by Robin Bray [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/04\/Thuras-Diary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31523\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/04\/Thuras-Diary.jpg\" alt=\"Thura's Diary\" width=\"326\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a>While the premise of a young girl\u2019s diary about surviving war in contemporary Iraq is promising \u2013\u00a0if not necessary in order to put an innocent human face to the so-called \u2018war on terrorism\u2019 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0this title proves ultimately disappointing. The writing seems to be overly manufactured, almost hiding behind a false veneer, as if the writer is only too aware of an audience on the other side of the BBC cameras that first presented her story to the media. The final entry is most telling with \u201cI have to go now. It\u2019s time for me to write another diary about different things, not to be published, but for me to leave to my children one day.\u201d Too bad we don\u2019t have access to those pages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2004-04-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, April 30, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4188\" title=\"Thura's Diary\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/thuras-diary.jpg\" alt=\"Thura's Diary\" width=\"128\" height=\"186\" \/>While the premise of a young girl\u2019s diary about surviving war in contemporary Iraq is promising \u2013 if not necessary in order to put an innocent human face to the so-called \u2018war on terrorism\u2019 \u2013  this title proves ultimately disappointing. The writing seems to be overly manufactured, almost hiding behind a false veneer, as if the writer is only too aware of an audience on the other side of the BBC cameras that first presented her story to the media. The final entry is most telling with \u201cI have to go now. It\u2019s time for me to write another diary about different things, not to be published, but for me to leave to my children one day.\u201d Too bad we don\u2019t have access to those pages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2004-04-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, April 30, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,107,30,20,6535,66,31],"tags":[3598,6608,22,10,11,28,4584,4585,4586,45],"class_list":["post-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iraqi","category-memoir","category-middle-grade-readers","category-nonfiction","category-repost","category-translation","category-young-adult-readers","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-civil-rights","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-politics","tag-robin-bray","tag-thura-al-windawi","tag-thuras-diary-my-life-in-wartime-iraq","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thura&#039;s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq by Thura Al-Windawi, translated by Robin Bray [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/thuras-diary-my-life-in-wartime-iraq-by-thura-al-windawi-translated-by-robin-bray\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thura&#039;s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq by Thura Al-Windawi, translated by Robin Bray [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While the premise of a young girl\u2019s diary about surviving war in contemporary Iraq is promising \u2013 if not necessary in order to put an innocent human face to the so-called \u2018war on terrorism\u2019 \u2013 this title proves ultimately disappointing. 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