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| Title Statement | A stranger in your own city: travels in the Middle East's long war / Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. |
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| Author | Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith |
| Publication | London: Alfred A. Knopf,2023. |
| Edition | First American edition. |
| Extent of Item | ix, 409 pages |
| ISBN | 9780593536889 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr06877530 |
| General Notes | "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso. |
| Contents | My first war --Mother of all battles --The years of the sanctions --Baghdad and the red room --Hawassim, the decisive battle --The statue --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 --Hassan --The new leader --The state of corruption --Hassan And Maliki --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 --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. |
| Summary | "An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war"-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, Iraqi |
| By Name | Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith |
| By Location | Baghdad (Iraq)--Description and travel |
| Baghdad (Iraq)--History | |
| Iraq--Description and travel | |
| By Genre | Biographies |
| Personal narratives | |
