Record Number: 33579
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'He had the daily paper folded under his arm with his forage cap or sidara, and his latchkey, as long and as heavy, and in fact an exact duplicate of mine, in his hand. Having climbed to my room, smoked a cigarette, drunk a cup of coffee and exchanged the news of the day, he would open the paper out upon my table and lead me, with many halts and interruptions, through the Baghdad journalist' flowers of invective, chiefly directed against our British crimes. It was the fashionable thing to be anti-British in Baghdad at the time.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Nov 1929 and 31 Dec 1929
Country:Iraq
Timedaytime
Place:city: Baghdad
specific address: 11/186 Amara Quarter
location in dwelling: drawing room
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Listener: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:31 Jan 1893
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Travel writer
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Iraq
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[unknown]
Genre:Politics, Arabic language Baghdad newspaper
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication DetailsBaghdad, 1929
Provenanceread in situ
Shared reading and listening with Nasir Effendi
Source Information:
Record ID:33579
Source:Freya Stark
Editor:n/a
Title:Baghdad Sketches: Journeys through Iraq
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1937
Vol:n/a
Page:27
Additional Comments:
Pagination is from the 2011 IB Tauris edition. The book was first published by John Murray in London in 1937.
Citation:
Freya Stark, Baghdad Sketches: Journeys through Iraq, (London, 1937), p. 27, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33579, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs Perowne, (31 January 1893 – 9 May 1993) was a British explorer and travel writer. The regular shared reading of the Baghdad Arabic press with Nasir Effendi was as much designed for intelligence gathering as to strengthen her Arabic. Stark was working as a journalist for the English language Baghdad Times in this period, and lived in the Amara district