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03594aam a2200457 i 4500 001 7B98C096D05211EDAFAA7FBA3FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230401010016 008 221018s2023 nyuab e 000 0 eng 010 $a 2022048464 020 $a 0593536886 020 $a 9780593536889 035 $a (OCoLC)1331708242 040 $a DGU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d JUH $d SILO 043 $a a-iq--- 100 1 $a Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith, $e author. 245 12 $a A stranger in your own city : $b travels in the Middle East's long war / $c Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2023. 300 $a ix, 409 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 25 cm 520 $a This is not a book about Iraq's history or an inventory of the many Middle Eastern wars that have consumed the nation over the past several decades. This is the tale of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniacal leader who shaped the state in his own image; a people who watched a foreign army invade, topple that leader, demolish the state, and then invent a new country; who experienced the horror of having their home fragmented into a hundred different cities. When the "Shock and Awe" campaign began in March 2003, Abdul-Ahad was an architect. Within months he would become a translator, then a fixer, then a reporter for The Guardian and elsewhere, chronicling the unbuilding of his centuries-old cosmopolitan city. Beginning at that moment and spanning twenty years, Abdul-Ahad's book decenters the West and in its place focuses on everyday people, soldiers, mercenaries, citizens blown sideways through life by the war, and the proliferation of sectarian battles that continue to this day. Here is their Iraq, seen from the inside: the human cost of violence, the shifting allegiances, the generational change. 505 0 $a 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 for war -- Diala front lines -- The state -- The people resisting -- Migration, part 2 -- The Colonel -- Ali's war -- Aftermath -- Life and tragedy return to Mosul. 600 10 $a Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith. 650 0 $a Iraq War, 2003-2011. 651 0 $a Baghdad (Iraq) 651 0 $a Iraq. 655 7 $a Travel writing. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Personal narratives. $2 lcgft 941 $a 11 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409043908.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314024936.0 952 $l CPPC926 $d 20231111014114.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20230922010607.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230503013554.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230502010418.0 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20230421010025.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20230414010225.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230411012703.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230404020031.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20230401010220.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7B98C096D05211EDAFAA7FBA3FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search