The Devil You Don't Know: Going Back to Iraq - Softcover

Al-Jezairy, Zuhair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863566499 ISBN 13: 9780863566493

Verlag: SAQI BOOKS, 2010

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'What really comes through and is startlingly refreshing are al-Jezairy's encounters with ordinary Iraqis...during the American occupation. Through them come all the extraordinary Iraqi stories that have been so hard for Westerners to capture all these years.'-RAGEH OMAAR

In 1979, journalist Zuhair al-Jezairy fled Iraq and certain death after openly criticising Saddam Hussein's regime. Twenty-five years later he is back, and cautiously celebrating the toppling of the hated Ba'ath Party.

As editor of a newspaper, he breaks the Oil for Food scandal, disclosing the names of Arabs and Westerners who were involved. He then sets up a television company and travels all over Iraq, documenting the country's descent into sectarianism and hopeless violence, soon becoming a target himself.

Al-Jezairy's first-hand accounts of the looting of Baghdad, the destruction of government buildings., and indiscriminate bombings are a searing, personal and unique account of Iraq after Saddam Hussein.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Zuhair al-Jezairy lives in Iraq, where he manages the country's first independent news agency, Voice of Iraq. He has published nine books, including two novels, in Arabic.

Zuhair al-Jezairy is founding editor of independent news agency Voice of Iraq. He is the author of two novels, The Edge of Judgement and The Frightened and the Frightening (both published by Al Adab). John West is a journalist and a graduate of Classics from Balliol College, Oxford. He has covered three wars in the Middle East as a correspondent for Reuters.

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• Verlag: SAQI BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0863566499
• ISBN 13: 9780863566493
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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