Irák (Anglicky)

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In the face of adversity, one could understand hostility; yet today's rare visitors are met with a broad hospitality that belies years of deprivation, and harks back to a time when this beleaguered country could show the world the meaning of the word 'welcome'



Author's Note, by Karen Dabrowska

At the time of writing the Iraqi people are suffering from one of the most stringent economic sanctions regimes ever imposed by the United Nations and from life under Saddam Hussein's totalitarian regime. But anyone who doubts that the country will not emerge from this difficult period and contribute once again to all noble human endeavours, does not understand the past and cannot predict the future.

In the words of Gavin Young, author of Iraq Land of Two Rivers:
"if the oil runs out the twin rivers will still uncoil like giant pythons from their lairs in High Armenia across the northern plains, will still edge teasingly closer near Baghdad, still sway apart lower down, still combine finally at the site - who knows for sure that it was not - of the Garden of Eden, and flow commingled through silent date-forests to the Gulf.".

Karen Dabrowska is a journalist specialising in Middle Eastern affairs.

The main contributor, Geoff Hann, has been leading tours to Iraq since the 1980s.

Typ:	Průvodce - cizojazyčný
Formát:	Formát A5
Publikoval:	Bradt
Cena:	799,-

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