A Stranger in Your Own City
Travels in the Middle East's Long War
SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023<BR>WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024<BR>ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023<BR><BR><BR>'Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE<BR>'A journalistic marvel' JAMES MEEK<BR>'A powerful, unforgettable book' NADIFA MOHAMMED<BR><BR>From Orwell Prize winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad comes a searing and nuanced biography of a lost Iraq<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.<BR><BR>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>'Shatters western assumptions . . . and offers cautious hope' The Observer<BR>'Haunting' Financial Times
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