TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 
TI  - STRANGER IN YOUR OWN CITY : Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
SN  - 9781529151534
U1  - 956.70443 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - UK
PB  - Penguin Random House
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives
KW  - Baghdad (Iraq) -- Description and travel
KW  - Baghdad (Iraq) -- History
KW  - Iraq -- Description and travel
KW  - Personal narratives
N1  - 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
ER  -