Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy Hansen | Audiobook

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Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible Title: Notes on a Foreign Country Author: Suzy Hansen Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 08-15-17 Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Genres: Nonfiction, Politics Summary: In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the US-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul. Hansen arrived in Istanbul with romantic ideas about a mythical city perched between East and West, and with a naïve sense of the Islamic world beyond. Over the course of her many years of living in Turkey and traveling in Greece, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iran, she learned a great deal about these countries and their cultures and histories and politics. But the greatest, most unsettling surprise would be what she learned about her own country - and herself, an American abroad in the era of American decline. It would take leaving her home to discover what she came to think of as the two Americas: the country and its people, and the experience of American power around the world. Contact: [email protected]