{"product_id":"9780863566493","title":"The Devil You Don't Know: Going Back to Iraq","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAl-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZuhair al-Jezairy\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn West\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Saqi Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008763740400,"sku":"9780863566493","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780863566493_p0.jpg?v=1763824350","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780863566493","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}