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Jarrar, along with his family, compiled their blogs into The Iraq War Blog, An Iraqi Family's Inside View of the First Year of the Occupation, which was published in June of 2008. The book explores, through their words, how their lives were affected as terrorist activities, as well as the American military and coalition allies response, devastated the city. They persevered through night attacks and daytime missile strikes that oftentimes wreaked destruction to their home by blowing doors off hinges and breaking windows. The Jarrar family, while chronicling their daily lives amid the destruction, also provides descriptive analysis of the political climate that resulted from the American occupation of the country.
Jarrar later gained attention after an incident on August 12, 2006 at John F. Kennedy International Airport.[3] Raed had attempted to board a JetBlue flight from New York City to Oakland, California while wearing a black T-shirt with the text We will not be silent in English and Arabic. The shirts were produced by The Critical Voice, an anti-war group; the text was inspired by the German phrase Wir schweigen nicht ( We will not be silent ), the slogan of the White Rose, the subversive German antifascist anti-nazi organization.[4] As Jarrar himself related:
Nusrat Jahan Choudhury, an expert in Constitutional law at the American Civil Liberties Union who followed the trial, noted:[3] neither the TSA officials involved nor JetBlue could identify a single passenger who had supposedly been 'concerned' by Mr. Jarrar's t-shirt. Nor had they inquired whether the nature of any purported 'concern' was based on a legitimate reason or an illegitimate racial bias, perhaps grounded in the stereotyping of Mr. Jarrar as a terrorist simply because he is Arab and wore a shirt with Arabic script.
Showing for the second time at the couture season, Jarrar offered a new vision of minimalism, in which slivers of navy bisected straight-cut shift-dresses, draped backs swung open to reveal a satin inner-lining, and wrap skirts, with contrast piping, unfolded to disclose the buried treasure of gold lame.
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