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A STRANGER IN YOUR OWN CITY - GHAITH ABDUL-AHAD...

SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 WINNER OF THE
EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF
THE YEAR 2023  'Exquisite . . . A genuine  melancholy masterpiece' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE  'A
journalistic marvel' JAMES MEEK  'A powerful  unforgettable book' NADIFA 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

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