IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq
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Hadiya was fifteen when she began posting from Mosul, a northern Iraqi city living under foreign military occupation. Her entries show a girl who studies for exams, follows a television series about friends, and tries to finish homework whenever the power comes back on. Around these ordinary routines, violence keeps intruding: week-long curfews, car bombs on her street, relatives lost, neighbors forced to leave their homes. She writes in English so that people abroad can understand what daily life is like there, and she does so with dark humor and frank honesty. The result is a record of family, school, friendship and faith, and of one young woman determined to keep building a future in the middle of destruction.
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