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020			_a9781529151534
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a956.70443 _bGHA/ST
100			_aGhaith Abdul-Ahad
245			_aSTRANGER IN YOUR OWN CITY : Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
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260			_aUK _bPenguin Random House _c2023
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500			_aA 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.
650			_aIraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives
650			_aBaghdad (Iraq) -- Description and travel
650			_aBaghdad (Iraq) -- History
650			_aIraq -- Description and travel
650			_aPersonal narratives
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999			_c190411 _d190411