He scoffs at roadblocks manned by a 7′ cardboard soldier (while the real military gets stoned on qat). Despite the dangers and hatreds, his narrative is more than slightly tongue-in-cheek and a lot more than a little funny. He met many people who exclaimed, “Death to America!” before gushing about Disneyland or Hollywood. As a left handed, Jewish stringer, he was not the most popular person to be wandering about those parts of the middle east. There he was, in a land where even local weather reports and maps were banned. For Tony Horwitz to be bombing around (pun totally intended) Arabia was insane.
Read in memory of that event.īaghdad in the mid 1980s was such a volatile place to be.
Reason read: Baghdad was bombed in March 2003. Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia.
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