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  Fiction - paperback; Vintage; 307 pages; 2008. (Translated from the French by John Cullen.) This novel, first published in 2005 under the title Les Sirenes de Baghdad in France, is yet another earnest and thought-provoking story by Yasmina Khadra, the non deplume of the Algerian Army officer Mohammed Moulessehoul.

"My Family And I Are At Risk Because Both Sides Would Not Care For Our Blood" Posted by Editors on July 18, 2008 – 7:39 am BAGHDAD, July 17 (Xinhua) — Nowadays at sunset, the thoroughfare of Khadraa district which bisects the Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad is always thronged with people.

The Swallows of Kabul is an interesting story of the entanglement of the lives of two couples in Kabul. The first three-fourths of the book follows the two husbands closely as they coincidentally run into each other but never meet (somewhat like Ulysses).

Iraqi refugee crisis grows as West turns its back I take any job I can. We need the money. I sometimes start at six in the morning and do not get back home until eight or nine at night. I have worked as a labourer, selling chai, cleaning shoes. We come from Ramadi, and I used to go to school there.

by Yasmina Khadra The Sirens of Baghdad, the last in Yasmina Khadra's Islamic fundamentalism trilogy, is best described by a passage on the dust jacket of the hardcover: "A masterful and chilling look at violence and its effects on ordinary people." This book went where I thought The Attack was going to.

by Yasmina Khadra The first book in Yasmina Khadra's trilogy about Islamic fundamentalism is the story of two couples whose lives under the rule of the Taliban become linked and changed forever at the scene of the stoning to death of a prostitute. This is a gut-wrenching little book.