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Cyma Hibri, The Conversation

An Iraqi journalist watched Saddam’s statue being toppled. His war memoir de-centres the West

The US invasion of Iraq was a deliberate campaign of political and economic destabilisation, argues Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in ‘A Stranger in Your Own City’.

Cyma Hibri, The Conversation
· Aug 12, 2023 · 05:30 pm
Explainer: Why Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’ is one of the greatest scholarly books ever written

In his seminal 1978 bookSaid explores the ways Western experts, or ‘Orientalists’, have come to understand and represent the East.

Cyma Hibri, The Conversation
· Feb 18, 2023 · 05:30 pm