Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia

This volume of exiles' accounts "[uses] the stories as springboards to discussing Iraqi history, politicization, and diasporic experiences in depth" (International Journal of Middle East Studies).

With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba'th coup and support of Saddam Hu...