The Wake of War Encounters with the People of Iraq and Afghanistan

by Nivat, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780807002391
• ISBN10: 0807002399
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-15
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

A renowned journalist's travels in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion and occupation In the spring of 2003, acclaimed journalist Anne Nivat set off from Tajikistan on a six-month journey through the aftermath of the American invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. Nivat felt compelled to meet and write about the lives of everyday people, whom she allows to speak in their own voices, in their own words--words of hope, sadness, anger, and, above all, the uncertainty that fills their everyday lives. Her new Preface for the paperback edition looks at the situation in Iraq today.

Author Biography

Anne Nivat is an award-winning journalist and author. She covered the Chechen war for the French daily Libération and is currently the Moscow correspondent for Ouest-France. Artist-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in 2004, Nivat has written pieces for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune and has appeared on NPR's Fresh Air, The Connection, and PBS's NewsHour, as well as other radio and TV programs. She holds a doctorate in political science from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. In 2001, she received the SAIS-Novartis International Journalism Award at The Johns Hopkins University. For her first book, Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya, which won the Albert Londres Prize in 2000, Nivat disguised herself as a Chechen woman and traveled to the war-torn region despite a Russian ban on journalists. Also the author of The View from the Vysotka, Nivat lives in Moscow and travels extensively.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
PART I In Iraq, after the U.S. Military Victory of April 2003
1. THE PROSCENIUM	3	(3)
2. EN ROUTE TO ERBIL	6	(3)
3. A KURDISH FAMILY	9	(10)
4. A YOUNG LEADER	19	(9)
5. THE MAJOR HOLIDAYS	28	(11)
6. A TURKOMAN FAMILY	39	(11)
7. EN ROUTE TO BAGHDAD	50	(3)
8. BAGHDAD	53	(18)
9. A DOMINICAN FRIAR	71	(5)
10. A RESISTANCE FIGHTER AND A FORMER FEDAYEE	76	(8)
11. IN THE "SUNNI TRIANGLE"	84	(10)
12. EN ROUTE TO AN NAJAF	94	(3)
13. A SHIITE FAMILY	97	(24)
14. A FORMER ADMIRAL	121	(25)
15. A MAN OF THE THEATER	146	(11)
PART II In Afghanistan, after the U.S. Military Victory of December 2001
16. EN ROUTE TO KUNDUZ	157	(3)
17. A TEACHER	160	(7)
18. EN ROUTE TO BADAKHSHAN	167	(4)
19. AN ENGINEER	171	(10)
20. A GYNECOLOGIST	181	(13)
21. EN ROUTE TO MAZAR-E-SHARIE	194	(2)
22. A WAR CHIEF	196	(11)
23. EN ROUTE TO KABUL	207	(2)
24. KABUL	209	(9)
25. EN ROUTE TO KANDAHAR	218	(4)
26. A FORMER TALIBAN	222	(26)
27. EN ROUTE TO KHOST	248	(2)
28. A GOVERNOR AND FORMER COMMANDER	250	(11)
29. THE MINOR HOLIDAYS	261	(15)
30. DETOUR THROUGH PESHAWAR	276	(4)
Conclusion	280	(6)
Acknowledgments	286	(2)
Notes	288	(16)
Select Bibliography	304