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Thura al- ?)– Windawi (1983() Biography
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Personal, Addresses, Writings, Sidelights
(Thura al-Windawi)
Personal
Born 1983. Education: Attended University of Baghdad and University of Pennsylvania.
Addresses
Agent—c/o Author Mail, Viking/Penguin Group, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014.
Writings
Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq (young adult), translation by Robin Bray, Viking (New York, NY), 2004.
Sidelights
Thura al-Windawi, the daughter of a British-educated father and a middle-class Iraqi mother, is the author of Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq, a memoir of the time leading up to and including the U.S.
invasion that began in March of 2003. A British journalist who saw al-Windawi's diary helped get it translated and published. The book contains the thoughts and observations of a young woman whose life changed after her country came under attack.
Al-Windawi writes of family moments, including baking bread with her mother and li