Author Description

With grace and power, Jon Rose sweeps the reader through 10,000 years of Middle Eastern history for the ancient country of Mesopotamia, now Iraq - the hub of the Middle East. He hovers with a lamplight over the life of a present-day individual in one family racked by tragedy. He leads us from his childhood in the picturesque river city of Rawa through the years of deadly sanctions, the bombings, the grim scenes of Abu Ghraib prison, and so much more. Today, the author and the subject work together at the borders of war-ravaged Syria, helping the helpless. Some say one thing men learn from history is that men never learn from history. For these men at least, it is not true.