What a nice surprise. Annia travels with her Lebanese transplant husband from their New York home, both working dangerous war correspondent assignments at the beginning of the Iraq War. Along the way Annia discovers the familiar communion war-torn families in the Middle East relied on for a sense...
This memoir follows the experiences of a journalist in the Middle East, from her honeymoon in Beirut in 2003 right through her reporting assignment in Baghdad. The hook here is that she combines her own love story with the experience of war reporting and lots of descriptions of delicious soundi...
This may seem like an unusual book club selection, but as it turned out, it was an inspired choice, a book rife with discussable topics ranging from Middle Eastern family life, learning about the area's convoluted and complicated politics, to surviving while living in a war zone, fitting in when ...