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Description edit
Also known as: The Flying Carpet to Baghdad: One Woman's Fight for Two Orphans of War
The inspiring true story of a prizewinning foreign correspondent longing for a child, two small Iraqi girls in need of a mother, and what love and grief can teach us about family and hope. Zahra, age...
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Characters/People edit
- Hala Jaber: is a British-Lebanese journalist
- Steve Bent: is a British news photographer
- Zahara: is a 3 year old iraqi orphan girl
- Harwa: is a few months old iraqi orphan baby
- Marla: is a american women
- Lara: is a Hala's niece
- Zahra: Add a description of this character.
- Ali
- Grandmother
- Hawra
- Rana
- Dr Hodges
- Sean
- Mama
- Swain
- Hata
- Allah
- Rafed
- Iman
- Fallujah
- Ahmed
- Saddam
- Ahmad
- Mohammed
- Hajieh
- Muntather
- Michael
- Diana
- Baba
Table of Contents edit
Prologue
ONE: Finding Zahra
TWO: This Women Will Never Bear a Child
THREE: Shock and Awe
FOUR: 'Will I Get My Arms Back?'
FIVE: Saving Zahra
SIX: Two Little Girls
SEVEN: Angel of Mercy
EIGHT: Adoption
NINE: Falling froma Great Height
TEN: Lost in Maelstrom
ELEVEN: Supping with the Devil
TWELVE: Angel in Hraven
THIRTEEN: 'Are You Afraid of Death, Hala?'
FOURTEEN: Ali, the Seventeen-Year-Old Statesman
FIFTEEN: Finding Hawra
SIXTEEN: Looking for Zahra
SEVENTEEN: A Doctor's Love
EIGHTEEN: A Bond of Rings
Acknowledgements
Authors & Contributors edit
- Hala Jaber (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Macmillan Books
Country: U.K.
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 9780330465281
Page Count: 298
Publisher: Macmillan Books
Country: U.K.
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 9780330465281
Page Count: 298
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 956.70443092
Subjects edit
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Professionals & Academics › Journalists
- Books › History › Military › Iraq War
- Books › History › Middle East › Iraq
- Books › History › Europe › England
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs
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