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Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, Iraqi.
Baghdad (Iraq) -- Description and travel.
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Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith.
Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, Iraqi.
Baghdad (Iraq) -- Description and travel.
Baghdad (Iraq) -- History.
Iraq -- Description and travel.
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A stranger in your own city : travels in the Middle East's long war /
Ghaith
Abdul-Ahad
.
by
Abdul-Ahad
,
Ghaith
.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Call #:
956.70443 A136s
Subjects
Abdul-Ahad
,
Ghaith
.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, Iraqi.
Baghdad (Iraq) -- Description and travel.
Baghdad (Iraq) -- History.
Iraq -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9780593536889 (hc)
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
ix, 409 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war. The history of reportage has often depended on outsiders—Ryszard Kapuściński witnessing the fall of the shah in Iran, Frances FitzGerald observing the aftermath of the American war in Vietnam. What would happen if a native son was so estranged from his city by war that he could, in essence, view it as an outsider? What kind of portrait of a war-wracked place and people might he present? A Stranger in Your Own City is award-winning writer
Ghaith
Abdul-Ahad’s vivid, shattering response. This is not a book about Iraq’s history or an inventory of the many Middle Eastern wars that have consumed the nation over the past several decades. This is the tale of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniacal leader who shaped the state in his own image; a people who watched a foreign army invade, topple that leader, demolish the state, and then invent a new country; who experienced the horror of having their home fragmented into a hundred different cities. When the “Shock and Awe” campaign began in March 2003,
Abdul-Ahad
was an architect. Within months he would become a translator, then a fixer, then a reporter for The Guardian and elsewhere, chronicling the unbuilding of his centuries-old cosmopolitan city. Beginning at that moment and spanning twenty years, Abdul-Ahad’s book decenters the West and in its place focuses on everyday people, soldiers, mercenaries, citizens blown sideways through life by the war, and the proliferation of sectarian battles that continue to this day. Here is their Iraq, seen from the inside: the human cost of violence, the shifting allegiances, the generational change. A Stranger in Your Own City is a rare work of beauty and tragedy whose power and relevance lie in its attempt to return the land to the people to whom it belongs."--Publisher.
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