The Foreigner's Gift

The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq

By: Fouad Ajami

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Paperback | 1 August 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Fouad Ajami, one of the world's foremost authorities on Middle Easternpolitics and the recipient of the 2006 Bradley Prize for OutstandingAchievement and the National Humanities Medal of 2006, offers a brilliant, illuminating, and lyrical portrait of the ongoing struggle for Iraq and of the American encounter with that volatile Arab land. In a new introduction, the author discusses the many major events that have taken place since the publication of the hardcover, including the implications of Saddam's execution, the Baker-Hamilton Commission, and the return to Iraq of General David Petraeus. He renders unsparingly the growing American disillusionment with the war and the struggle within Iraq between those keen to hold on to the promise of the new country called up by America's war and others determined to thwart that promise and overwhelm it with sectarian strife. Ajami situates the current unrest within the context of Iraq's recent history of dictatorship and its rich, diverse cultural heritage. He applies his incisive political commentary, his broad and deep historical view, his mastery of the Arabic language and Arabic sources, and his lustrous prose to every aspect of his subject, wresting a coherent, fascinating, and texturedpicture from the media storm of fragmented information. "The Foreigner?sGift" is the book we all need to read in order to understand what ishappening in Iraq today and what the future might hold for all of us.

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"Ajami draws on a variety of contemporary texts, mostly unknown or inaccessible to Western authors.... The result, based on six extended visits to Iraq and a lifetime of travel and experience, is the best and most idiosyncratic recent treatment of the American presence there. A series of firsthand portraits, often brilliantly subtle, of some fascinating players in contemporary Iraq." -- Victor Davis Hanson, Commentary

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government International Relations Political Control & Freedoms History Regional & National History Asian History Middle Eastern History Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Post War 20th Century History after 1945 Society & Culture

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Introduction to Paperback Edition	p. xiii
Preface	p. xxvii
Prologue: On the Abandoned Lover's Bridge: The Sorrow of Mussayib	p. 1
"Tell Me How This Ends"	p. 15
Chronicle of a War Foretold	p. 49
In the Shadow of the Martyrs	p. 87
States of Mind: The Liberators' Bewilderment	p. 109
The Old Regime's Afterlife	p. 147
The False History	p. 189
After Innocence	p. 241
Waiting for Rain	p. 311
Turning Points in the American War in Iraq	p. 345
Notes	p. 347
Acknowledgments	p. 357
Index	p. 359
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