Winnipegger Nahlah Ayed

Mahdi Army Dept: There is a stark clarity to the scene, halfway through this brisk but carefully measured memoir, when former Winnipegger Nahlah Ayed confronts her own mortality in the streets of a disintegrating Baghdad, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "Angry men hauled bloody ones on blankets down the street," she recalls, as she herself is dragged away by a member of the Mahdi Army. "Body parts. Screaming. Hysteria... I pleaded with my captor to keep things calm." Related Items Articles A love letter to Winnipeg On the NightTable Her words become clipped and urgent. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.