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New PDF release: Violence, Veils and Bloodlines: Reporting from War Zones

By Louis J. Salome

ISBN-10: 0786446595

ISBN-13: 9780786446599

This memoir via an American journalist explores how entrenched notions of self, relatives, and tribalism dictate human habit in our sleek global. Salome's paintings as a international correspondent, reporting from such areas as Belfast, Kabul, Bosnia and Somalia, supplied him with a distinct point of view at the position nationalism and tribalism play in conflicts all over the world. whereas sweeping in its scope, the paintings bears witness to at least one man's exam of his familial roots and ethnicity, and the ways that tribalism is located lurking below his personal roof. contains 26 photos, in addition to maps to familiarize readers with a number of the world's so much misunderstood and risky areas.

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We were in their Kurdistan, the land of the Kurds, they emphasized. They were Kurds, Iraqi Kurds, but never simply Iraqis. Linguistically and religiously diverse, Kurds are an Indo-European people, more like Iranians than Arabs, primarily Sunni Mus- 24 Violence, Veils and Bloodlines lims by religion, and they are mostly secular, not fanatical, and by appearances barely mainstream Muslims. A large minority in Iraq, Kurds are the second largest ethnic group in that country, but they are not Arabs.

It was Talibani and his people who had arranged for Sherco and Nammo to meet us on the Iraqi side of the Tigris and for other Kurds to take us to Zakho. Syrians in Qamishli helped Nangle and me to reach the Tigris. War, after all, must be chronicled when it’s in your interest, and just in case your side wins. For a moment on the night of March 25, Nangle and I felt like Kurds and thought we would be lucky to get out of Qamishli alive. Our hotel room there cost $5 for one night, and that was $5 too much.

A large minority in Iraq, Kurds are the second largest ethnic group in that country, but they are not Arabs. They are composed of many tribes who speak many different dialects of their Indo-European language. Though ethnically Kurds throughout the region are the same, in many other ways they are as different and divided as are the Arabs. Fractious, rebellious and an exploited collection of tough mountain fighters and urban professionals, the Iraqi Kurds had killed each other fighting for and against their greatest scourge, Saddam Hussein.

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