"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 criticizing 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, and
is subsequently forced to resign. 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 firsthand accounts of the looting of Baghdad, the
destruction of government buildings, and indiscriminate bombings
present a searing, personal, and unique view of Iraq after Saddam
Hussein.
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.
John West is a journalist and a graduate in classics from
Balliol College, Oxford. He has covered three wars in the Middle
East as a correspondent for Reuters.
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