A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Orwell Prize winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad “comes a searing and nuanced biography of a lost Iraq”.  

Published by Penguin, “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.”

According to the publisher the book deals with “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.”

Book Details:

Author: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

ISBN: 9781529157178

Publisher: Penguin

Publication year: 2024

No. Of Pages: 480

Language: English

• About the Author

About Sprightly Spirit

“I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares more is none”. And all, may be. It may be the vigor. Or the spirit. Or the courage to avoid being “politically correct” or bent. And, ban all averse with immaculate overture of graciously fathomable words firm in views. Subtle. Justifying the undying conscience. Values. Knowledge. And, dares to stay true. True to own. True to the world. And, to the words. With a dream in eyes it exists. In you. In me. In all. The sprite that never shies away. The spirit that never dies!