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Night Draws Near

Anthony Shadid

What did the American invasion and occupation of Iraq look like from the street, in the lives of ordinary Iraqis in Baghdad?

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Author
Anthony Shadid

Why read it

  • You will learn why casualty numbers in a war zone are often guesses, and who the people behind them were
  • You will see how a dictatorship stages empty rituals, such as a vote with only one possible result
  • You will learn to ask what a plan made far away looks like to the people who live with its results

Who it is for

  • A reader who followed the Iraq war only through headlines
  • Someone trying to understand Iraq's divisions through those who lived them
  • A decision maker weighing military action abroad

Contents

  1. Author’s Note
  2. Prologue
  3. Part One
  4. Before
  5. The City of Peace
  6. Tabaghdada
  7. Part Two
  8. The American Invasion
  9. What’s Written on Your Forehead
  10. Like a Flower
  11. A Dark, Dark Tunnel
  12. A Daughter’s Diary
  13. For You, Iraq
  14. Part Three
  15. Aftermath
  16. Dry Bread with Tea
  17. The Blood of Sadr
  18. Part Four
  19. The Occupation
  20. A Very, Very, Very, Very Bad Neighborhood
  21. The Mud Gets Wetter
  22. If You Want a Gazelle, Take a Rabbit
  23. Part Five
  24. The Insurgency
  25. A Bad Muslim
  26. Baghdad Is Your City
  27. Oil and Punks
  28. Myths of Resistance
  29. Epilogue
  30. Afterword

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