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Nowadays the TV cameras make Baghdad look like a suburban car park, and for Tamara Chalabi, raised in England and Beirut on memories of pre-Saddam Iraq, the first encounter in 2003 was dismal.

  • Late for Tea at the Deer Palace

    Tamara Chalabi

    Harper Press, pp. 414

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