Deborah Amos covers Iraq for NPR, having recently returned to the station after a decade in television news. Previously, she spent 16 years with NPR, including stints as the London Bureau Chief, and as a foreign correspondent in Ammam, Jordan. Deborah won widespread recognition and several prestigious awards for her coverage of the Gulf War in 1991. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in New York City.
Bill Moyers
"Memo to President Obama: Take this book with you to Camp David for
the weekend. Then insist your foreign policy and national security
teams read it, and schedule a time to test them orally on their
retention. The reporting here contains the seeds of our future in
Iraq and the Middle East."
Publishers Weekly
"Millions of Iraqis, mostly Sunnis, [have] fled the country,
creating a refugee crisis that has only recently been acknowledged
as such by the U.S. government.... Amos deftly examines the
political and cultural consequences of the marginalization of the
Sunnis while focusing on individual Iraqis who have fled to such
countries as Syria and Lebanon in the wake of a new sectarian and
tribal-based order in Iraq.... Amos's breathtaking work implicates
not only shortsighted American policy but the age-old schism
between Sunni and Shia and the cagey maneuverings of such meddling
neighbors as Syria. The weight and complexity of the Iraqi problem
is on full display, with shreds of hope pushing through the layers
like scrub in the desert."
Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer"A fascinating new book."
Washington Post
"Poignant... Powerful.... Amos is a skillful writer and a
perceptive analyst.... Eclipse of the Sunnis is persuasive and very
well written."
George Packer, author of The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq and
Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade
"Deborah Amos stuck around to trace the fallout from the Iraq War
after most other journalists had moved on. And she already had
decades of experience in the region under her belt. This commitment
to the story has allowed her to see the war in its true historical
context: as a Middle Eastern earthquake that will forever change
the power equation between Sunnis and Shia, and as a vast human
tragedy. These are not abstractions in 'Eclipse of the Sunnis'
Amos' intelligence and heart as a reporter make the fate of Iraq's
millions of refugees unforgettably intimate."
Bob Carey, vice president of Resettlement and Migration Policy at
the International Rescue Committee; chair of Refugee Council
USA
"A compelling book. Deborah Amos documents the collapse of a rich
culture and society and violence behind the creation of a global
diaspora. Amos movingly details the human toll of the war. She
gives a face and a voice to the hundreds of thousands of refugees
who are the forgotten collateral damage of the conflict."
George Packer, author of "The Assassin s Gate: America in Iraq and
Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade"
"Deborah Amos stuck around to trace the fallout from the Iraq War
after most other journalists had moved on. And she already had
decades of experience in the region under her belt. This commitment
to the story has allowed her to see the war in its true historical
context: as a Middle Eastern earthquake that will forever change
the power equation between Sunnis and Shia, and as a vast human
tragedy. These are not abstractions in "Eclipse of the Sunnis" Amos
intelligence and heart as a reporter make the fate of Iraq s
millions of refugees unforgettably intimate.
Bob Carey, vice president of "Resettlement and Migration Policy at
the International Rescue Committee"; chair of "Refugee Council
USA"
A compelling book. Deborah Amos documents the collapse of a rich
culture and society and violence behind the creation of a global
diaspora. Amos movingly details the human toll of the war. She
gives a face and a voice to the hundreds of thousands of refugees
who are the forgotten collateral damage of the conflict.
Bill Moyers
Memo to President Obama: Take this book with you to Camp David for
the weekend. Then insist your foreign policy and national security
teams read it, and schedule a time to test them orally on their
retention. The reporting here contains the seeds of our future in
Iraq and the Middle East.
"Publishers Weekly"
Millions of Iraqis, mostly Sunnis, [have] fled the country,
creating a refugee crisis that has only recently been acknowledged
as such by the U.S. government . Amos deftly examines the political
and cultural consequences of the marginalization of the Sunnis
while focusing on individual Iraqis who have fled to such countries
as Syria and Lebanon in the wake of a new sectarian and
tribal-based order in Iraq . Amos s breathtaking work implicates
not only shortsighted American policy but the age-old schism
between Sunni and Shia and the cagey maneuverings of such meddling
neighbors as Syria. The weight and complexity of the Iraqi problem
is on full display, with shreds of hope pushing through the layers
like scrub in the desert.
Trudy Rubin, "Philadelphia Inquirer" A fascinating new book.
"Washington Post"
Poignant Powerful . Amos is a skillful writer and a perceptive
analyst . "Eclipse of the Sunnis" is persuasive and very well
written.
Brian Till, "Atlantic.com" Deb Amos, it turns out, is as eloquent
on the page as she is on the airwaves as a foreign correspondent
for National Public Radio. More than a poetic read, though,
("Eclipse") is an innately human story about the toll of the war;
it should be required reading for all of those weighing bombing
campaigns and land assaults, and, indeed, for those pontificating
in favor of them from Washington think tanks or London editorial
rooms. "
George Packer, author of "The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq and
Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade"
"Deborah Amos stuck around to trace the fallout from the Iraq War
after most other journalists had moved on. And she already had
decades of experience in the region under her belt. This commitment
to the story has allowed her to see the war in its true historical
context: as a Middle Eastern earthquake that will forever change
the power equation between Sunnis and Shia, and as a vast human
tragedy. These are not abstractions in '"Eclipse of the Sunnis"'
Amos' intelligence and heart as a reporter make the fate of Iraq's
millions of refugees unforgettably intimate."
Bob Carey, vice president of "Resettlement and Migration Policy at
the International Rescue Committee"; chair of "Refugee Council
USA"
"A compelling book. Deborah Amos documents the collapse of a rich
culture and society and violence behind the creation of a global
diaspora. Amos movingly details the human toll of the war. She
gives a face and a voice to the hundreds of thousands of refugees
who are the forgotten collateral damage of the conflict."
Bill Moyers
"Memo to President Obama: Take this book with you to Camp David for
the weekend. Then insist your foreign policy and national security
teams read it, and schedule a time to test them orally on their
retention. The reporting here contains the seeds of our future in
Iraq and the Middle East."
"Publishers Weekly"
"Millions of Iraqis, mostly Sunnis, [have] fled the country,
creating a refugee crisis that has only recently been acknowledged
as such by the U.S. government.... Amos deftly examines the
political and cultural consequences of the marginalization of the
Sunnis while focusing on individual Iraqis who have fled to such
countries as Syria and Lebanon in the wake of a new sectarian and
tribal-based order in Iraq.... Amos's breathtaking work implicates
not only shortsighted American policy but t
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