Ghaith Abdul-Ahad  <br/><br/>
STRANGER IN YOUR OWN CITY : Travels in the Middle East’s Long War 

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 - UK  Penguin Random House  2023 
 -  458 
<br/><br/> 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.<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781529151534 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Purchased  Prism Books,Kadavanthra 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives<br/>Baghdad (Iraq) -- Description and travel<br/>Baghdad (Iraq) -- History<br/>Iraq -- Description and travel<br/>Personal narratives
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>956.70443  / GHA/ST