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A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
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.
512 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 2, 2023 |
| ISBN13 | 9781529151534 |
| Publishers | Cornerstone |
| Pages | 480 |
| Dimensions | 241 × 165 × 44 mm · 722 g |
| Language | English |
