Category: Iran and Iraq

June 18, 2010

Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi *** (of 4)

This is Marjane Satrapi’s second half of her graphic (comic book) memoir of life as an Iranian exile in Europe as a young teen followed...

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June 18, 2010

Persepolis 1 by Marjane Satrapi *** (of 4)

A memoir in graphic novel form of growing up under Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. It’s a good introduction to the history of the era and...

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June 18, 2010

Jarhead by Anthony Swofford *** (of 4)

An excellent memoir of life in the marines during the first Gulf War.

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June 17, 2010

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth W. Farnea ** (of 4)

In the late 1950’s Elizabeth Farnea’s new husband traveled to a small rural village in southern Iraq to do graduate research on an irrigation project....

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June 17, 2010

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins **** (of 4)

Filkins has chutzpah. He has been reporting on the war in Iraq since the days before Al Qaeda ever goaded the Bush administration into attacking...

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