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Acknowledgments
First and foremost, thanks to all of the people who generously gave me their time and lent me their thoughts, often complete strangers in the middle of terrible chaos. They must believe that telling their stories might help their world; may their faith not always be in vain.
I would have been deaf and dumb without Ayub Nuri, Shaho Hawezi, Rebeen Azad, Birzo Abdel Qadir, Yerevan Adham, Ali Adeeb, Yilmaz Akinci, and Omar Abdulkader. Thanks to Rebeen for his company and for answering so many questions by e-mail. Omar gave endless amounts of knowledge, encouragement, and friendship. Ayub provided comments on drafts and years of insight as he progressed from fixer to family. Thanks to IWPR for putting me up in Sulimaniya and to Sohini Sarkar for smuggling out a disc of Omar's excellent photos.
At the BBC I'd like to thank the staff of the PRI/WGBH coproduction, who are the finest bunch with whom a hack could ever bash out a day's news. On the ground in Iraq many crews at the Baghdad bureau gracefully put up with an American in their midst who always claimed to be working for the BBC; it is a great honor to work with you all. Thanks to Jim Muir for lending his recollections, photographs, and good humor.
I owe a debt to the International Reporting Project at SMS, where John Schidlovsky, Louise Lief, and Denise Melvin helped me get out the door on my first trip to Kurdistan. Before I even met him in Jordan, Stephen Glain gave me the journalistic shirt off his back and set me up with Abu Ahmed in Baghdad (he also came up with my working title "Prodigal Republic"). Scott Peterson also gave a warm welcome in Amman.
Najmaldim Karim gave his time graciously and let me study at the Washington Kurdish Institute, where Tara Welat worked in the summer of 2006. Michelle Lunato, Rich Greene, and William Walsh helped me survive the embed system; and on the Kurdish side thanks to Leslyanne Robson, Kamran Karadaghi, and Hiwa Osman.
Matt McAllester, Eliza Griswold, and Peter Bergen all helped me get to the process of finding an agent and generously gave me advice on pitching. I'm lucky to call all three of them friends, and while I'm at it, there is no man on earth blessed with better friends than I: who put me up for weeks when I come through London, Washington, Bogotá, Istanbul, Boston, and New York; who took time out to make pancakes, play chess or water polo, or dance salsa in the middle of a war; who picked me up from helipads at four A.M.; who dropped everything to help when I needed it. No less to the folks who help to shine away the cloud I cast when I come back home in rough shape—thank you.
Ayub Nuri and Hard J. Lawrence read this book very early on and provided excellent advice and corrections. Thanks to Annie Manuel and Billie Mascioli, Norm Thurston, Karen Hanrahan and Dean Wagner, Zeynep Erdim, Richard Sanders, Brian Morrison, Mike Amitay, Anderson Mien, Jo Floto, and my brother, Tim, for reading the drafts and sharing their comments.
Robert Guinsler at Sterling Lord took a chance on this book and gave me great encouragement. George Gibson at Walker & Company also believed in this project and was a pleasure to craft it with.
My mother and father can take credit for everything I've managed to do right with this book (the errors are mine), and they also made possible a splendid winter up in Maine, writing. Lastly, mil gracias a Sefiorita Sarah Han.
A Note on the Author
DAVID AQUILA "QUIL" LAWRENCE is Middle East correspondent for BBC/PRI's The World. He has reported for NPR, the Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. He has won awards for his work on Colombia, Sudan, and Iraq. This is his first book.
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