Thura al windawi biography examples

(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