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Jehan S. Rajab - Invasion Kuwait: An English Woman's Tale - 9781850437758 - V9781850437758
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Invasion Kuwait: An English Woman's Tale

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Description for Invasion Kuwait: An English Woman's Tale Hardcover. In the form of a journal, this book tells the story of the author's experiences in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion. Jehan Rajab chronicles her fight to preserve normality in the face of persecution and to save the Tareq Rajab Museum, her workplace, from destruction. Num Pages: 224 pages, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBXK; 3JJPR; BGHA; JPVR; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 33. Weight in Grams: 590.
Kuwait City, Monday 25 February 1991 It is dark and black, but humid rather than warm. From the top of the roof it is still possible to hear the roar from the oilfields. I am sure that is what it is. Now we have no water, no electricity, no gas, no petrol and no food. I suppose, if necessary, we will have to do what the British and Americans did - dig a well. These words were written by Jehan Rajab in the final desperate hours before Kuwait was liberated after seven months of Iraqi occupation following the first ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Number of Pages
217
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781850437758
SKU
V9781850437758
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About Jehan S. Rajab
Jehan S. Rajab was born in Brazil, educated in Gibraltar and Britain, is married to a distinguished Kuwaiti, and has lived in Kuwait for over thirty years. She is a specialist in costume and silver folk jewellery from the Arab world, in particular from the Gulf and Levant. She is involved in running the Tareq Rajab Museum and the New ... Read more

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