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  • House of Stone

    A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

    "Wonderful . . . One of the finest memoirs I've read." — Philip Caputo, Washington PostIn the summer of 2006, racing through Lebanon to report on the Israeli invasion, Anthony Shadid found himself in his family's ancestral hometown of Marjayoun. There, he discovered his great-grandfather's once magnificent estate in near ruins, devastated by war. One year later, Shadid returned to Marjayoun, not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Legacy Of The Prophet

    Despots, Democrats, And The New Politics Of Islam

    The World Trade Center bombing, suicide attacks in Israel, the slaughter of tourists in Egypt and innocents in Algeria. One of the world's great religions, Islam has become identified today with senseless bloodshed, its followers branded as irrational fanatics with a penchant for violence. Ours is the era of the "Islamic threat." But another story remains to be told. Beyond the headlines, a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Night Draws Near

    Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War

    From the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, here is a riveting account of ordinary people caught between the strugglesof nationsLike her country, Karima—a widow with eight children—was caught between America and Saddam. It was March 2003 in proud but battered Baghdad. As night drew near, she took her son to board a rickety bus to join Hussein's army. "God protect ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The American Age, Iraq

    Before his death while on assignment in 2012, Anthony Shadid visited Iraq’s all-but-defunct Baghdad College, an American institute that aimed to provide young Iraqis with both knowledge and a sense of acceptance. Spending time with ex-students and their retired Jesuit teachers, Shadid portrayed a time when America was known in the Arab world not for military action but for cultural education – a ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • International Reporting

    The War in Iraq

    Series series The Washington Post Pulitzers
    The in-depth coverage of the Iraq War that earned Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.On the eve of the war in Iraq, all news correspondents were ordered to leave Baghdad for the sake of their safety. Many streamed out. One man, instead, went deeper. At his own peril, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Anthony Shadid chose to stay, armed only with his ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    House of Stone

    A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

    Narrated by Neil Shah ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 22 min

    When Anthony Shadid—one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya as the region erupted—was freed, he went home, not to Boston, Beirut, or Oklahoma, where he was raised by his Lebanese American family, but to an ancient estate built by his great-grandfather, a place filled with memories of a lost era when the Middle East was a world of grace, grandeur, and unexpected departures. For two ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    Night Draws Near

    Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War

    Narrated by Anthony Shadid ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 6 min

    From the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, here is the riveting account of ordinary people caught between the struggles of nations.Determined to offer an unfiltered version of events, the Washington Post's Anthony Shadid was neither embedded with soldiers nor briefed by politicians. Because he is fluent in Arabic, Shadid—an Arab-American born and raised in ... Read more

    $22.99 USD