The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles - 9781594488672

The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles is the inspirational account of one woman's mission to save two orphans of war.
Zahra, age three, and Hawra, only a few months old, were the only survivors of a 2003 Baghdad missile strike that killed their parents and five siblings. Across the world, Hala Jaber and her husband had spent ten years trying to conceive, only to resign themselves, finally, to a childless future. Instead they threw themselves into their work as journalists, making the decision to go to Baghdad to report on the coming war.
As Jaber began her work of covering the emerging violence, she found herself drawn again and again to stories of mothers and children. Her search for their stories led her to a children's hospital - and to Zallfa and Hawra. Almost instantly, Jaber was entwined in the lives of these two girls, becoming their fiercest advocate. Fighting passionately to help the orphans ultimately even trying to adopt them - Jaber soon discovered that there is more than one way to love and raise a child, and more than one way to be a mother.
Hala Jaber writes with both the clear-eyed intelligence of a veteran foreign correspondent and the boundless passion of a woman whose own personal struggles have led to an intimate understanding of the human costs of grief. As an Arab living and working in the West, straddling two worlds, Jaber presents a genuinely fresh insight and perspective. Deeply moving and ultimately hopeful in its affecting depiction of the experiences of women and children whose lives have been irrevocably changed, The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles offers a chance for redemption after a period of grief.