High Tea in Mosul | The True Story of Two Englishwomen in war-torn Iraq

O'Donnell, Lynne

ISBN 10: 1905736096 / ISBN 13: 9781905736096

Published by Cyan Books, London, 2007

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- 222 mm. Cloth hardcover, gilt titling. Illustrated. Pp. ix, 213. As new condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: High Tea in Mosul | The True Story of Two Englishwomen in war-torn Iraq
• Publisher: Cyan Books, London
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905736096
• ISBN 13: 9781905736096
• Binding: Publisher's Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
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Synopsis

Two Englishwomen, married to Iraqi men they met in Britain and later accompanied back to the northern city of Mosul, tell their stories to a reporter in this unusual look at Westerners immersed in Middle Eastern culture and politics. Pauline Basheer, wife of an Iraqi heart surgeon and mother of two children, has lived in Iraq for more than 30 years, and her friend, another Englishwoman who also arrived in Iraq in the mid–70s. The book details how the two women got to know each other as they assimilated, learning Arabic, living within traditional Iraqi family structures, and enduring the rigors of Saddam Hussein's regime: food rationing, thought police, anti-Western discrimination, and almost constant war. Interviewed for the book in 2003, they describe their overlapping experiences in Mosul and share their individual perspectives on this life-changing experience.

About the Author

Lynne O'Donnell has been a reporter for more than 25 years, having contributed to magazines, newspapers, wire services, and radio stations around the world.