When International Mathematical Union awarded its 2018 Fields Medal (the Nobel Prize for Mathematicians) to one of our own,...
The Peshmerga and His Son
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When You Are A Peshmerga Wife…
Jean Sasson’s Love in a Torn Land, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007, explores the hardships and terror that Iraqi Kurds faced under Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime. The biographical story revolves around Joanna al-Askari Hussain, a young woman born of an Arab father and a Kurdish mother. Despite her upbringing in Baghdad, Joanna’s Kurdish roots and her love of Kurdish define her life’s course.