Product Description: A student at the University of Baghdad must return to his small village home when the Americans invade Iraq. There, he witnesses American soldiers kill the benign village idiot, bomb a wedding, and finally, terrorize his family in his own home...read more

Product Description: Classrooms were never sufficient for Jared Cohen; he wanted to learn about global affairs by witnessing them firsthand. While studying on a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford, he took a crash course in Arabic, read voraciously on the history and culture of the Middle East, and in 2004 he embarked on the first of a series of incredible journeys to the Middle East...read more

Traces the story of an Iraqi-born American whose brief 1980 visit to make peace with his estranged father was abruptly halted by Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran, an event after which the author was trapped in the region and forced to fight against American forces in Desert Storm. Simultaneous.