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Fallen Cities
Dispatches from Twenty Years of War in the Middle East
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2025
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Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78816-481-8 (ISBN)
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78816-481-8 (ISBN)
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Late at night I lay awake in my hotel bed, listening to the sounds of a city at war: the distant thuds of mortars crashing at the Green Zone followed by the monotonous din of supply convoys shrouded in the safety of the dark curfew hours, the hoarse howling of street dogs. Dawn will break soon, and shortly afterwards clashes will resume, and car-bombs will start blowing up in the morning rush hour. The sounds, like the war, had become repetitive, rhythmic and very predictable.
Since 9/11 the Middle East has been riven by war, the lines between enemies and allies shifting and reforming, often street by street, in urban areas where combatants and civilians live uneasily together. From his own experiences in Baghdad, Mosul, Aden and Aleppo, Ghaith Abdulahad weaves together a uniquely rich and lyrical account of the past twenty years through the eyes of those who live there: smugglers and soldiers, extremists and pragmatists, those that don't want to leave and those who can't get away.
Since 9/11 the Middle East has been riven by war, the lines between enemies and allies shifting and reforming, often street by street, in urban areas where combatants and civilians live uneasily together. From his own experiences in Baghdad, Mosul, Aden and Aleppo, Ghaith Abdulahad weaves together a uniquely rich and lyrical account of the past twenty years through the eyes of those who live there: smugglers and soldiers, extremists and pragmatists, those that don't want to leave and those who can't get away.
Ghaith Abdulahad is an Iraqi journalist and winner of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, the James Cameron Memorial Trust Award, the British Press Awards' Foreign Reporter of the Year and the Orwell Prize for Journalism. He has written for the Guardian, London Review of Books and Washington Post and published photographs in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Times. Besides reporting from Iraq, he has also reported from Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and Syria, often behind enemy lines.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.1.2025 |
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Zusatzinfo | Integrated b&w drawings from author |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78816-481-4 / 1788164814 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78816-481-8 / 9781788164818 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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