Bullets in Envelopes

Iraqi Academics in Exile

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Louis Yako: Bullets in Envelopes (2021, Pluto Press)

256 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2021 by Pluto Press.

ISBN:
978-0-7453-4197-2
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An extremely compelling and well structured book that also happens to be an very tough read about people's careers being derailed before their eyes as part of an assault on Iraq's education system and social fabric as a result of the UN's sanctions and the 2003 US invasion. The transcribed conversation fragments really propelled me through; the context and stories provided in-between are good, but hearing people's experiences from their own mouths is really effective and hard hitting.