STRANGER IN YOUR OWN CITY : Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
STRANGER IN YOUR OWN CITY : Travels in the Middle East’s Long War - 1 - UK Penguin Random House 2023 - 458
A work of great beauty and tragedy from a gifted storyteller and reporter. Published on the twentieth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, it places the experience of ordinary civilians at its heart.
This is the story of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniac leader who shaped the state in his own image. Then one day, after yet another war, a foreign army invaded, toppled the leader, destroyed the state, and proceeded to invent a new country. This is the story of a people who watched with horror as their world fragmented into a hundred different cities, as walls rose between them and bodies piled in the streets. From the American invasion to the Arab Spring, ISIS and beyond, A Stranger in Your Own City offers a remarkable de-centring of the West in the history and contemporary situation of the region. What comes to the fore is the effect on the ground- the human cost, the shifting allegiances, the generational change.
9781529151534
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives
Baghdad (Iraq) -- Description and travel
Baghdad (Iraq) -- History
Iraq -- Description and travel
Personal narratives
956.70443 / GHA/ST
STRANGER IN YOUR OWN CITY : Travels in the Middle East’s Long War - 1 - UK Penguin Random House 2023 - 458
A work of great beauty and tragedy from a gifted storyteller and reporter. Published on the twentieth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, it places the experience of ordinary civilians at its heart.
This is the story of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniac leader who shaped the state in his own image. Then one day, after yet another war, a foreign army invaded, toppled the leader, destroyed the state, and proceeded to invent a new country. This is the story of a people who watched with horror as their world fragmented into a hundred different cities, as walls rose between them and bodies piled in the streets. From the American invasion to the Arab Spring, ISIS and beyond, A Stranger in Your Own City offers a remarkable de-centring of the West in the history and contemporary situation of the region. What comes to the fore is the effect on the ground- the human cost, the shifting allegiances, the generational change.
9781529151534
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives
Baghdad (Iraq) -- Description and travel
Baghdad (Iraq) -- History
Iraq -- Description and travel
Personal narratives
956.70443 / GHA/ST