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Jemil Metti

Refugee on a Pendulum

Refugee On a Pendulum takes the reader to Iraq, Syria and the US, where the residuals of the Syrian civil war during the 2014-2018 period still impact the lives of this novel’s two main characters: Sabah Faraj Putrus, a Chaldean-American medical doctor, working for Doctors Without Borders in Syria, and Hamdia Qubbani, a devout Muslim refugee trying to flee the war zone alive.

Refugee on a Pendulum

Refugee On a Pendulum takes the reader to Iraq, Syria and the US, where the residuals of the Syrian civil war during the 2014-2018 period still impacts the lives of this novel’s two main characters: Sabah Faraj Putrus, a Chaldean-American medical doctor, working for Doctors Without Borders in Syria, and Hamdia Qubbani, a devout Muslim refugee trying to flee the war zone alive. But, what happens when the nation’s security, economic and academic growth rapidly deteriorate leaving Sabah no alternative but to try to help expedite Hamdia’s escape from the region, even if it meant accepting massive aid from a sworn enemy and the involvement of his medical school sweetheart, Jane Kilgore, to get it done!

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Operation Olive Tree

At Neve Shalom High, two students meet and cultivate a friendship inspired by their mutual love for opera. Two adults in their lives, a Neve Shalom instructor and a Tel Aviv voice professor, nurture a belief that their artistic contributions could play an unexpected and important role in reactivating the peace talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis.

Operation Olive Tree

At Neve Shalom High, two students meet and cultivate a friendship inspired by their mutual love for opera. Two adults in their lives, a Neve Shalom instructor and a Tel Aviv voice professor, nurture a belief that their artistic contributions could play an unexpected and important role in reactivating the peace talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis.

The Ministry of Education had provided funding for the effort; however, family mistrusts from both sides are frequently plagued by cultural prejudices related to decades of territorial and religious disputes. Eventually, as adults, the two students find themselves back where they started, but in a place they could never have imagined because it gives them hope.

Educated in Lebanon, Iraq, and the United States, author Jemil Metti has taught international relations at the college level, focusing on Middle Eastern conflicts. Operation Olive Tree is his fictional exploration of something important to all of us: the power of dialogue until a peace accord is reached.

ISBN:9781977203793

Nominated for the 2018 EVVY AWARD

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The Pahlavi Sword

A story of redemption and self-examination, The Pahlavi Sword introduces SAVAK security Captain Jamsheed Al-Armaghani, the young, handsome officer who finds himself at risky odds with his immediate supervisor, Commander Farouk Nabizadeh. SAVAK's systematic torture of Evin Prison's inmates infuriates and confronts Jamsheed's conscience and security status to the point of underground resistance.

The Pahlavi Sword

A story of redemption and self-examination, The Pahlavi Sword introduces SAVAK security Captain Jamsheed Al-Armaghani, the young, handsome officer who finds himself at risky odds with his immediate supervisor, Commander Farouk Nabizadeh. SAVAK's systematic torture of Evin Prison's inmates infuriates and confronts Jamsheed's conscience and security status to the point of underground resistance. Subsequently, he is publicly branded a fugitive of the law, which compels him to forge a fragile, unlikely alliance with outlawed, anti-regime resistance fighters and political organizations, including the communist-leaning Tudeh Party.

His one-year asylum under the protection of Tehran's Assyrian Church subjects him to a brief romantic encounter with loyal church member Fareeda, an outspoken, nurse and daring Assyrian freedom fighter.

He is also conflicted by his own covert actions, constantly questioning whether they are driven by his instinctive desire to seek justice or revenge, particularly when obsessed by an unrelenting crave to embarrass his former commander Nabizadeh before the shah, he blindly admires, and expose him embroiled in multiple scandals, including blackmail, drug trafficking and child kidnapping.

As Jamsheed's world increasingly slips on the fast track of regime change, he and brother Mahmood reluctantly flee Iran before travel restrictions are imposed, as their homeland is poised to welcome its exiled religious leader, the Ayatollah Raola Khomeini, in February of 1979. Whether or not Jamsheed Al-Armaghani returns to Iran is ultimately influenced by Evin's former inmate, Thuraya Al Gailani.

ISBN: 13:9781482601367

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Perception Wars: Iraq From the Outside In

This book is Metti’s journey to Iraq under extraordinary family circumstances. It describes personal and academic challenges he encountered by the need to acclimate to a new language and culture. This story is also a depiction of cultural rejection aggravated by assimilation issues: He was compelled to live in places not of his choosing; to master a tongue alien to his childhood; and to feel out of place every time he stepped outside the hospitable and generous embrace of his extended Iraqi family into the corporal punishment landmines of Iraqi education.

ISBN: 978-1-4363-0745-1

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