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The flying carpet to Baghdad

Paperback • 2010 • English • 1. edition

The flying carpet to Baghdad: one woman's fight for two orphans of war

By Hala Jaber

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About the book

Zahra, aged 3, and Hawra, just a few months old were the only survivors of a missile strike in Baghdad in 2003. Their parents and their five siblings all died. Unable to have children herself, Hala Jaber, an award-winning foreign correspondent, was determined to do all she could to help them. Sent to Iraq by the Sunday Times to cover the war, the last thing she expected was to find herself trying to save two little girls who had lost everything. But what happened next tells us far more about tha...Show more

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Book details

ISBN

9780330465281

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2010

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The flying carpet to Baghdad

Format

Paperback

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