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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 2023WINNER OF THE
EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024ONE 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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