EAN: 9781529157178

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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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