ISBN: 9780593536889 - a stranger in your own city: travels in the middle east's long war (20 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war. "An essential insider account of the unravelling of Iraq.Driven by his intimate knowledge and deep personal stakes, Abdul-Ahad.offers an overdue reckoning with a broken history."--Declan Walsh, author of The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State "A vital archive of a time and place in history.Impossible to put down."--Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise "Abdul-Ahad's masterpiece." --Owen Jones, The Guardian The history of reportage has often depended on outsiders--Ryszard Kapuściński witnessing the fall of the shah in Iran, Frances FitzGerald observing the aftermath of the American war in Vietnam. What would happen if a native son was so estranged from his city by war that he could, in essence, view it as an outsider? What kind of portrait of a war-wracked place and people might he present? A Stranger in Your Own City is award-winning writer Ghaith Abdul-Ahad's vivid, shattering response. 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. A Stranger in Your Own City is a rare work of beauty and tragedy whose power and relevance lie in its attempt to return the land to the people to whom it belongs.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war. "An essential insider account of the unravelling of Iraq.Driven by his intimate knowledge and deep personal stakes, Abdul-Ahad.offers an overdue reckoning with a broken history."--Declan Walsh, author of The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State "A vital archive of a time and place in history.Impossible to put down."--Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise "Abdul-Ahad's masterpiece." --Owen Jones, The Guardian The history of reportage has often depended on outsiders--Ryszard Kapuściński witnessing the fall of the shah in Iran, Frances FitzGerald observing the aftermath of the American war in Vietnam. What would happen if a native son was so estranged from his city by war that he could, in essence, view it as an outsider? What kind of portrait of a war-wracked place and people might he present? A Stranger in Your Own City is award-winning writer Ghaith Abdul-Ahad's vivid, shattering response. 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. A Stranger in Your Own City is a rare work of beauty and tragedy whose power and relevance lie in its attempt to return the land to the people to whom it belongs. …

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2023. First American edition, as stated. First printing. Quarter black cloth over black paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy with the original publisher's price of $30.00 intact on the front jacket flap. 8vo. 409 pp. Comes with an archival-quality Mylar dust jacket protector. Abdul-Ahad's account of Baghdad and Iraq across two decades of war, beginning with the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and continuing through the fragmentation, sectarian violence, and social upheaval that followed. Drawing on his experience first as an architect and later as a translator, fixer, and reporter for The Guardian, Abdul-Ahad focuses on ordinary Iraqis, soldiers, mercenaries, and civilians whose lives were transformed by the collapse and reconstruction of the Iraqi state.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 409 pages. 9.50x6.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 409 pages. 9.50x6.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From award-winning journalist and Baghdad-native Ghaith Abdul-Ahad comes a powerful portrait of his city and the Iraqi people told through twenty years of war The history of reportage has depended on outsiders-Ryzard Kapuscinski witnessing the fall of the shah in Iran, Frances Fitzgerald observing the aftermath of the American war in Vietnam. What would happen if a native son was so estranged from his city by war that he could, in essence, view it as an outsider What kind of portrait of a war-wracked place and people might he present A Stranger in Your Own City is award-winning writer Ghaith Abdul-Ahad's beautiful, shattering answer. This is not a book about Iraq's history, nor an inventory of the many Middle Eastern wars that have consumed the nation over the past several decades, though both wars and history are part of its narrative, including the 2003 American invasion, the Arab Spring, and the rise of ISIS. This is the tale of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniac leader who shaped the state in his own image; 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 'Shock and Awe' began in March of 2003, Abdul-Ahad was an architect. Within months he would become a translator, then a fixer, then a full-time 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 offers a remarkable decentering of the West, and in its place emerges space for everyday people, soldiers, mercenaries, people blown sideways through life by the war. What comes to the fore is the effect on the ground: the human cost, the shifting allegiances, the generational change. A Stranger in Your Own City is a rare work of beauty and tragedy whose power and relevance lies in its attempt to return the land to the people it belongs to. …

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnGHAITH ABDUL-AHAD is an Iraqi journalist. Born in Baghdad in 1975, he trained as an architect before he was conscripted into Saddam Hussein s Iraqi army, which he deserted. Soon after U.S.-led coalition forces took control.