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Cyma Hibri, The Conversation
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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
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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