Mon coeur est � Bagdad: Chronique familiale d'une guerre à l'autre

[French edition]
Mon coeur est à Bagdad :

Chronique familiale d'une guerre à l'autre

a memoir by Leilah Nadir
with photos by Farah Nosh
400 pages

Publisher: Payot (September 2009)
GENCOD:9782228904513

ISBN-13:2-228-90451-1

News

The Orange Trees of Baghdad was released in the USA with a new Epilogue by Red Leaf, Vancouver.

The Orange Trees of Baghdad was released in the UK in March 2014 with a new Epilogue, published by Read Leaf, Vancouver.

Payot & Rivages in France has published a pocket (poche) version of The Orange Trees of Baghdad by Leilah Nadir as Les Orangers de Bagdad.

Epsilon has published The Orange Trees of Baghdad in Turkey
as Bagdat in Portakal Agaclari

This brings the total number of territories sold to 5, including Canada, UK, Italy and France.

How They See Us: Meditations on America (Atlas & Co) has been published in the USA, including an essay by Leilah Nadir.
See Press page for links to reviews.

Available in Canada from Chapters

Now available in France and in French in Canada.
[France]
[Quebec]

The Orange Trees of Baghdad is now available in paperback.

How They See Us: Writers from Around the Globe Reflect on America will be available in the US in January 2009. It includes an essay by Leilah Nadir.

Editions Payot & Rivages has bought World French Rights to The Orange Trees of Baghdad for publication in September 2009.

Leilah Nadir’s reads her perspective on Writing in the Red Zone for Australian National Radio ABC

Listen to Leilah Nadir’s interview with Philip Adams on Late Night Live on ABC (Australian National Radio)

Leilah Nadir has won the 2008 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature

In late Fall New York publisher Atlas & Co will publish an anthology called How They See Us, including an essay by Leilah Nadir on how she sees America as an Iraqi-Canadian.

Italian edition of The Orange Trees of Baghdad has been published and is available now in Italy.

CBC Radio One Sounds Like Canada interview with Shelagh Rogers February 15,2008

In the Halifax Daily News,Stephen Clare writes about the new voices in Canadian literature that reflect the country's diversity.

Scribe Publications in Australia has bought British Commonwealth Rights to The Orange Trees of Baghdad and will publish in September 2008.

An essay by Leilah Nadir, In the Red Zone, appeared in Quill and Quire's The Last Word section, on the topic of writing about the war in Iraq without being overwhelmed by anger.

Recent Media attention for The Orange Trees of Baghdad

Elle Canada chooses The Orange Trees of Baghdad as one of the Top 3 Books in their September 2007 issue. +More+

Leilah Nadir interviews Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef in the UK poetry magazine, The Wolf.