false 274294 0 0 5810103 1594488673 9781594488672 17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256082047m/5810103.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256082047s/5810103.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5810103.The_Flying_Carpet_of_Small_Miracles_A_Woman_s_Fight_to_Save_Two_Orphans 3.61 36 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 three, and Hawra, only a few months old, were the only survivors of a missile strike in Baghdad in 2003 that killed their parents and five siblings. Across the world, in London, foreign correspondent Hala Jaber was preparing to head to Iraq to cover the emerging war. After ten years spent trying to conceive, Jaber and her husband had finally resigned themselves to a childless future. Now she intended to bury her grief in her work, with some unusually dangerous reporting. Once in Iraq, though, Jaber found herself drawn again and again to stories of mothers and children, a path that led her to an Iraqi children’s hospital—and to Zahra and Hawra and their heart-wrenching story. Almost instantly Jaber became entwined in the lives of these girls, and in a struggle to advocate on their behalf that reveals far more about the human cost of war than any news bulletin ever could.

Beautifully written and deeply moving, The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles presents a genuinely fresh insight and perspective from a woman who, as an Arab living and working in the West, is able to uniquely straddle both worlds. In its attention to the emotional experiences of women and children whose lives are irrevocably changed by war, Jaber’s story offers hope for redemption for those caught in its cross fires.]]> 274294 3.67 49 21 2009 491584 0231108346 9780231108348 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223663741m/491584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223663741s/491584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/491584.Hezbollah 3.82 11 Revered by many fundamentalist Shiites and reviled by the West, Hezbollah is considered to be a paradigm for other militant groups wishing to make the promise of Islamic Revolution a reality. Journalist Hala Jaber was granted exclusive and unparalleled access to the inner circle of this organization, and she exposes not only its tactics, but also its history, ideology, and culture.

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