AFTERMATH
Reading list

Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq
By Dahr Jamail
Nation Books, 2008

Beyond the Green Zone is an up-close look at daily life in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. One of the few unaffiliated journalists in Iraq, Jamail went to see the conditions for himself, and the compelling, heartbreaking stories he sent back over his eight-month stay were carried in publications world-wide: from family houses destroyed with their inhabitants to mosques full of people held under siege to the ill-equipped medical facilities and security forces meant to deal with them.

Collateral Damage
By Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian
Nation Books, 2009

Collateral Damage focuses on the Iraq war's impact on civilians, and the damage inflicted on them by US forces. Most of the information in the books comes from US military soldiers.

Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town
By Warren St. John
Spiegel and Grau, 2009

Outcasts United shares the story of the Fugees, a soccer program for boy refugees who have been resettled in the town of Clarkston, Georgia. Clarkston was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. This book tells the story of the Fugees and the challenge of learning the ways of a strange land and living with the memories of tragedy.

Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family and Survival in the New Iraq
By Christina Asquith
Random House, 2009

Four Iraqi women dare to stand up for their rights in the most desperate circumstances. Asquith, a journalist who spent many of the early years of the war in Iraq, reveals the plight of women living and serving in Iraq and offers us a vision of how women’s rights and Islam might be reconciled.

Sweet Relief: The Marla Ruzicka Story
By Jennifer Abrahamson
Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2006

Sweet Relief tells the story of Marla Ruzicka, the founder of Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC), who was killed in a car bombing in Iraq. Marla lived in Iraq for the first years of the war recording accounts from Iraqi civilians and fighting for the rights of innocent victims of war. Her organization CIVIC was an integral component of the creation of AFTERMATH.

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