Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
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A Stranger in Your Own City is a searing and nuanced biography of a lost Iraq, from the American invasion to the Arab Spring, ISIS, and beyond. It shatters Western assumptions and offers cautious hope.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 480 pages
Publication date: 22 February 2024
Publisher: Cornerstone
Exquisite . . . A genuine,melancholy masterpiece
William Dalrymple
A journalistic marvelJames Meek
A powerful,unforgettable bookNadifa Mohammed
From Orwell Prize winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad comes a searing and nuanced biography of a lost Iraq
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.
Shatters western assumptions . . . and offers cautious hope
The Observer
Haunting
Financial Times
Weight: 330g
Dimension: 197 x 128 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529157178
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