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The ungrateful refugee

what immigrants never tell you
"Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp. Eventually she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing [readeers] inside their daily lives and taking [them] through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement"--Amazon.
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Children of war

voices of Iraqi refugees
Twenty Iraqi children discuss how the War on Terror has affected their lives.
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The golden sandal

a Middle Eastern Cinderella story
An Iraqi version of the Cinderella story in which a kind and beautiful girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister finds a husband with the help of a magic fish.

Zaha Hadid

architect
2019
A brief biography of Zaha Hadid, an female architect who challenges people's ideas about what is normal.
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Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein

based on a true story
2018
For forty-two days in 1991, eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil and his family struggle to survive as Basra, Iraq, is bombed by the United States and its allies.
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True teen stories from Iraq

surviving ISIS
Looks at the reality of daily life in the ongoing consequences of ISIS's presence in Iraq.
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A fistful of pearls

and other tales from Iraq
A wealth of folk stories spiced with humour and the rose-scented enchantment of the Arabian Nights, elegantly retold and playfully illustrated to reveal the true, traditional heart of Iraq.

No safe place

Fifteen-year-old Abdul, having lost everyone he loves, journeys from Baghdad to a migrant community in Calais where he sneaks aboard a boat bound for England, not knowing it carries a cargo of heroin, and when the vessel is involved in a skirmish and the pilot killed, it is up to Abdul and three other young stowaways to complete the journey.

The golden sandal

a Middle Eastern Cinderella story
An Iraqi version of the Cinderella story in which a kind and beautiful girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister finds a husband with the help of a magic fish.

Gilgamesh the king

1998
A gorgeously illustrated retelling of the epic of Gilgamesh, half-god and half-man, set in ancient Mesapotamia.

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