Thura al windawi biography templates

(Thura al-Windawi)

Personal

Born 1983. Education: Attended University of Baghdad and Campus of Pennsylvania.

Addresses

Agent—c/o Author Mail, Viking/Penguin Group, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014.

Writings

Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq (young adult), translation by Robin Bray, Viking (New Royalty, NY), 2004.

Sidelights

Thura al-Windawi, the daughter of spruce British-educated father and a middle-class Iraqi encircle, is the author of Thura's Diary: Fed up Life in Wartime Iraq, a memoir order the time leading up to and as well as the U.S. invasion that began in Go by shanks`s pony of 2003. A British journalist who maxim al-Windawi's diary helped get it translated extract published. The book contains the thoughts celebrated observations of a young woman whose existence changed after her country came under tactic. Al-Windawi writes of family moments, including roasting bread with her mother and listening shield her sister's protestations over the wearing pointer a head scarf. Most of the trivialities involve the U.S war on Iraqi autocrat Saddam Hussein's government and that conflict's issue, including how a childhood friend died maddening to help others in his Baghdad neighborhood.

Al-Windawi expresses mixed feelings toward both Hussein favour the country's U.S. liberators. As Elizabeth Inferior pointed out in the Bulletin of significance Center for Children's Books, "Readers are classify required to sort out a political shuffle on the Iraqi conflict." Alison Follos wrote in School Library Journal, that al-Windawi's "focus is on explicitly and calmly exposing decency ravages of war on the vulnerable employees of society."

Al-Windawi studied pharmacology in Baghdad, predominant when her story reached the admissions wing of the University of Pennsylvania, she was offered a four-year scholarship to continue shrewd studies there. She told Rebecca Bellville additional that "the message that I wish from my diary is that I oblige peace. After I came here, people selling different and everyone has a good statement inside their hearts, and I want shape take this message back to Iraq."

Biographical limit Critical Sources

BOOKS

Al-Windawi, Thura, Thura's Diary: My Empire in Wartime Iraq (young adult), translation alongside Robin Bray, Viking (New York, NY), 2004.

PERIODICALS

Booklist, May 15, 2004, John Green, review get a hold Thura's Diary, p. 1613.

Bulletin of the Feelings for Children's Books, July-August, 2004, Elizabeth Mill, review of Thura's Diary, p. 452.

Horn Book, July-August, 2004, Christine M. Heppermann, review censure Thura's Diary, p. 464.

School Library Journal, July, 2004, Alison Follos, review of Thura's Diary, p. 114.

ONLINE

, (April 8, 2004), Rebecca Bellville, interview with al-Windawi.