Don't Shoot The Clowns. Taking A Circus To The Children Of Iraq

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: New Internationlist Publications Ltd
Publisher Place: Oxford
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 270 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Dont Shoot the Clowns is the account of one womans experience of living with Iraqi -people during the war and its aftermath. An intense and engaging story, it combines the reality of a country coping with invasion and occupation with the extraordinary story of the traveling circus set up to bring clowning and laughter to the children. As a human rights observer, Jo Wilding, a young British trainee lawyer and solidarity activist, witnessed and recorded some of the worst atrocities committed against ordinary civilians. And as the occupation started, she joined a group of performers to put on circus shows in squatter camps, hospitals, schools, and orphanages. Jo Wilding isnt a journalist but a new kind of citizen reporter,a instinctively recording events and publishing directly online. Her daily accounts have an immediacy and accuracy that bring the scenes sharply into focus. From the shocking and painful stories of the siege of Fallujah to the crowds of mesmerized children given some respite from horror and uncertainty by the clowns, every episode vividly evokes what day-to-day life in Iraq has been like.

ISBN: 9781904456483