A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War

A Stranger in Your Own City is a powerful and poignant portrayal of Baghdad, its people, and the devastating impact of war on a once vibrant and cosmopolitan city.

Through the eyes of an award-winning journalist, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, readers are taken on a journey through the unravelling of Iraq, offering an overdue reckoning with a broken history.

With intimate knowledge and deep personal stakes, Abdul-Ahad provides a vivid and shattering account of a people who have watched their home be fragmented into a hundred different cities.

This is not just a book about Iraq's history or an inventory of Middle Eastern wars, but rather the tale of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniacal leader, only to see their state demolished and a new country invented by a foreign army.

A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of war and its impact on the lives of innocent civilians.