Gary Kamiya has as a long review in Salon of what seems to be a remarkable book: Anthony Shadid’s “Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War.” Shadid is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Washington Post, an Arab-American fluent in Arabic, who reports on how the war looks to a broader swath of Iraqis than we usually hear from. According to Kamiya, Shadid’s book is an attempt to understand the war from Iraqi perspectives, not a political tract, although of course it has political implications.

It sounds like an amazing book, and the review is rich in stories and insights from the book. [Tags: iraq]

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