The Demonic Comedy: Some Detours in the Baghdad of Saddam Hussein - Hardcover

Roberts, Paul William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374138230 ISBN 13: 9780374138233

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998

Synopsis

British-born journalist Roberts collects here his interview with the Iraqi leader while covering the 1990 Arab Summit and accounts his experience as one of the few journalists to witness the devastation of civilians during the Gulf War from Baghdad itself, and his return for the International Babylon Festival in 1995. He draws on interviews with the US ambassador to argue that the Bush administration knew that the Iraqis were going to invade Kuwait and knew what Americans stood to gain by it. His style is often reminiscent of Hunter Thompson. Some of the material has been published in Saturday Night (May 1991) and Harper's (1996); the volume was first published by Stoddart Publishing in Canada in 1997. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul William Roberts is a journalist, producer and filmmaker and a scholar of Jewish and Arabic history and religions. He is the author of many books including A War against Truth. Awarded the inaugural PEN Canada/Paul Kidd Courage Award in 2005, he lives in Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0374138230
• ISBN 13: 9780374138233
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 294