Ahmad Shawkat
Ahmad Shawkat | |
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Born | 1951 Arabic : أحمد شوكت |
Occupation(s) | Professor of medicine, translator, journalist |
Known for | assassinated by Iraqi resistance members |
Ahmad Shawkat (
Shawkat was regarded as an opponent by the
Prior to his short career in journalism, he had served as an anatomy professor at
Shortly after the USA occupied Iraq, in 2003,
References
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"Ahmad's War". WBUR. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
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David Seddon (2013-01-11). A Political and Economic Dictionary of the Middle East. Routledge. ISBN 9781135355616. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
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Dexter Filkins (2005-10-30). "'Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace': One of the Good Guys". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
Michael Goldfarb, until recently a reporter for National Public Radio, has written a book about one of those Iraqis, Ahmad Shawkat, who was willing to fight, and to die, for the opportunities presented by the American intervention.
- ^ Amazon.com: Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq: Books: Michael Goldfarb
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"Remembering Ahmad Shawkat". BBC News. 2008-03-08. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
US journalist Michael Goldfarb discusses the murder of his friend Ahmad Shawkat, a politically active Iraqi Kurd.