O Daughter of Babylon: Journey of an Iraqi Patriot and What Chilcot Didn't Say - Paperback

El-Taher, Riad: - In 1990 Riad El-Taher was about to hit the jackpot. £800,000 worth of equipment for the Iraqi oil industry and the electrification of the country's railways had been shipped to his homeland and would be paid for after clearing customs. Further orders were flooding in. Then came Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, the shipments couldn't be paid for, orders dried up, and Riad was for a while reduced to earning his living as a cleaner. This book tells the story both of his success in business and of his subsequent change of direction, with all the consequences that would bring.Clark-Lowes, Francis: - The editor, Francis Clark-Lowes, has a BSc in Sociology, an MA in the Psychology of Therapy and Counselling, and a doctorate awarded for his research, later published, on Wilhelm Stekel, a forgotten figure in the early history of psychoanalysis. Between 1975 and 1977 he walked almost the whole way from London to Cairo via Jerusalem, and from 1979 to 1989 he taught English in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Thereafter he worked for many years as a counsellor, translated German books and other texts into English, and ran adult education classes on a variety of subjects.