Mic Looby Mic Looby i(A78098 works by)
Born: Established: 1969 Windsor, Hawkesbury area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon A Father’s Plea Kamalle Debussy , Mic Looby , Mulgrave : Affirm Press , 2021 20969996 2021 single work autobiography

'The heartbreaking true story of an unwilling ‘Bride of Isis’, and her father’s relentless fight to bring his daughter and grandchildren home to Australia.

'When Mariam married her childhood sweetheart in a fairytale Sydney wedding, her father Kamalle dreamed of a beautiful future for his family. When the young couple and their baby daughter went on an overseas holiday, he couldn’t have been happier. But a dark secret was lurking on the horizon. They would not be coming home.

'Mariam disappeared. Seventeen months later, Kamalle was informed by the Australian government that his daughter had been forced at gunpoint, by her husband, across the border into Syria and into the clutches of ISIS. When her husband was killed, Mariam was forced to marry another ISIS fighter, with whom she had another child. And then another; she was trapped. But since the defeat of ISIS, instead of being brought home, Mariam and her three young children have been classed as ‘foreign fighters’, forced to languish in refugee camps while their home country refuses to repatriate them.

'Kamalle has been working with international agency Save the Children for five years trying to bring home his daughter and grandkids, who have been abandoned with 20 other Australian adults and 47 children. Interacting with law enforcement and government agencies in Australia, he was told that keeping quiet would be in their best interests. That has achieved nothing. Now he tells his story.'(Publication summary)

1 My Tweet Surrender Mic Looby , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 6 February 2011; (p. 8-10)
2 4 y separately published work icon Paradise Updated Mic Looby , Mulgrave : Affirm Press , 2009 Z1624019 2009 single work novel humour

'There are precious few places still untouched by tourism. Paradise Lost? Chance would be a fine thing. More like Paradise Packaged, Marketed and Sold in Easy-to-Enjoy Portions. And if there's money to be made shining light into the darkest corners of the world, SmallWorld wrote the book on it.

'Robert Rind is a legend in travel writing circles, fiercely independent and resolutely old school. Too old school. The Company decides he's a liability and sends young, pliable Mithra to tropical Maganda to take his place. But the guidebook writer's life isn't all bustling street markets and five-star resorts: as any seasoned traveller knows, things rarely go as planned and Robert Rind is unlikely to come quietly.

'Mic Looby's masterful debut novel weaves a hilarious and hair-raising tale of compromised idealism and corporate skullduggery. You'll never open another guidebook without reading between the lines.' (From publisher's blurb.)

1 Encyclopedia of Australian Life Richard Castles , Kelly Chandler , Pete Cruttenden , Mic Looby , Anthony Morris , David Nichols , 2008 single work prose
— Appears in: True Blue? : On Being Australian 2008; (p. 210-211)
1 The Digging Mic Looby , 2007 single work short story
— Appears in: The Big Issue , 14-27 August no. 285 2007; (p. 27-30)
1 In This Mic Looby , 2004 single work short story
— Appears in: The Big Issue Australia , 27 December 2004 - 18 January 2005 no. 219 2004; (p. 18-21)
1 y separately published work icon June Factor's Juicy Jumping Joke Book June Factor , Mic Looby (illustrator), St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 2000 Z1104620 2000 selected work poetry children's
1 1 y separately published work icon June Factor's Juicy Joke Book June Factor , Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1998 Z834805 1998 selected work prose children's humour
1 1 y separately published work icon June Factor's Jumping Joke Book June Factor , New South Wales : Allen and Unwin , 1997 Z834163 1997 selected work prose children's humour This work is a collection of jokes and rhymes from children all over Australia.
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