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product_id: 5607518
title: "When the Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad"
brand: "mona yahia"
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# When the Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad

**Brand:** mona yahia
**Price:** £23.59
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- **What is this?** When the Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad by mona yahia
- **How much does it cost?** £23.59 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    Amazing story of escape
  

*by O***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 14, 2012*

This story flows easily along, occasionally eddying in some nostalgic remembrances.  But those moments are few and do not detract from the essential quality of the book which is a coming of age story that plays out in front of several backgrounds one of which, and the most fascinating to me, was middle twentieth century Iraqi politics. These leaders or cliques determined the security of the Jewish population, which was quite substantial. Bagdad in the middle twentieth century was 18% Jewish. Political upheavals were closely scrutinized by the Jewish population who largely held its breath while trying to divine potential dangers. Putsches were a regular phenomenon, not necessarily predictable but cyclical.  The victors were always hard on the vanquished, dragging their bodies through the streets, televising show trials, massive summary executions, etc. to an applauding Iraqi public that was always eager for a show.  While there was special kind of sharp persecution and violence reserved for the Jews, the intensity of persecution and violence for political enemies was definitely in the same ballpark.The persecution and fear finally become a steady rhythm for the Jewish community, like a drum beat, sometimes faster and more intense, sometimes slow but always there.  Amidst this the Jewish community tries to carry on normal lives in Iraq as they have for over two millennium.  But the writing is on the wall. The back drop becomes the slow steady stream of Jews out of Iraq and then ratchets up to become an exodus.  The curtain begins to fall on thousands of years of Jewish life in Iraqi.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Memoir
  

*by S***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 19, 2013*

Well written memoir of a little know era of Jewish life in Iraq in the last year's of a proud heritage of thousands of years.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Fascinating
  

*by L***J on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 26, 2013*

This book is  about the expulsion of Jewish people from Iraq.  The story illuminates both the historical detail and the impact of events on a growing girl and her family.  There is nothing maudlin about this book.  It  just shows us real people dealing with real tragedy.  That's quite an achievement.

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