A Stranger in Your Own City
Travels in the Middle East's Long War
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: ix, 409 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
"An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Prologue -- Part I The leader necessity and his statue. My first war -- Mother of all battles -- The years of the sanctions -- Baghdad and the red room -- Hawassim, the decisive battle -- The statue -- Part 2 The collapse of the state and the first civil war. Bakunin In Baghdad -- The viceroy -- Of exiles and militias -- The rebellion -- Karbala -- A street In Baghdad -- Fallujah -- The collaterals -- The shrink -- Hameed -- Saddam's trial -- A civil war is born -- The spy -- The wedding -- The Baghdad morgue -- Migration, part 1 -- The Sunnis defeated -- The schoolteacher -- The Sadda -- Part 3 A new state. Hassan -- The new leader -- The state of corruption -- Hassan And Maliki -- Part 4 In between two wars. The Sunni Spring, Syria -- Enter the Jihadis -- The Sunni Spring, Iraqi version -- The Jihadi begin building a state -- We are coming to Baghdad and other delusions -- The collapse of the brave new army -- Part 5 The Islamic State and second civil war. Fall of Mosul -- The Shia mobilise to war -- Diala front lines -- The state -- The people resisting -- Migration, part 2 -- The colonel -- Ali's war -- Aftermath -- Life and tragedy return to Mosul -- Epilogue.
Subjects:
Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith.
War correspondents.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, Iraqi.
Baghdad (Iraq) -- Description and travel.
Baghdad (Iraq) -- History.
Iraq -- Description and travel.
Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith.
War correspondents.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, Iraqi.
Baghdad (Iraq) -- Description and travel.
Baghdad (Iraq) -- History.
Iraq -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9780593536889
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY Asia Middle-East Abd | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/8/2024) |
"This is a Borzoi book."
Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Hutchinson Heinemann, ... London, in 2023.
Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Hutchinson Heinemann, ... London, in 2023.