Reseña del libro "Alfombra Voladora Sobre Bagdad"
Jaber, una corresponsal libanesa-britanica, nos muestra su trabajo profesional que abarca la Guerra del Golfo y su compromiso personal con una familia iraqui tragicamente atrapada en el fuego cruzado. Reportando para el Sunday Times de Londres sobre la invasion norteamericana de Irak en 2003, Jaber, acompanada por su marido, un fotografo britanico, Steve Bent, asumio la causa de numerosos ninos hospitalizados gravemente heridos en el bombardeo y ayudo a iniciar un fondo para proporcionarles una mejor atencion y suministros. En particular, Jaber destaca la extraordinaria historia de dos huerfanos, los unicos sobrevivientes de una familia de siete hijos que habia sido envuelta en el bombardeo con sus padres, mientras huian de su barrio en Bagdad en abril de 2003. / In this stirring, frank account, Jaber, a Lebanese-British foreign correspondent depicts her professional work covering the Gulf War and her personal engagement with an Iraqi family caught tragically in the crossfire. Reporting for London's Sunday Times on the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, Jaber, accompanied by her British photographer husband, Steve Bent, took up the cause of numerous hospitalized children grievously wounded in the bombing and helped start a fund to provide them with better medical attention and supplies. In particular, Jaber learned the extraordinary story of two orphans, the only survivors in a family of seven children who had been engulfed in the firestorm with their parents while fleeing their Baghdad neighborhood in April 2003. Three-year-old Zahra was burned over most of her body and in dire need of sophisticated emergency attention, while her baby sister, Hawra, tossed from a car window, survived unscathed. Jaber, with the help of young American journalist Marla Ruzicka (who eventually died in a car bombing), was able to get Zahra airlifted out, though she later died in an American military hospital. Jaber felt keenly for these orphans, as she had endured years of personal turmoil attempting to get pregnant in her marriage, and she proposed to the girls' grandmother that she adopt them. Jaber demonstrates in this affecting work how she employed her professional passion to aid Iraq's war victims.
