By Wafaa Bilal and Kari Lydersen
City Lights Booksellers and Publishers, 2008.
Praise for Shoot an Iraqi:
"Once I picked up this manuscript, I could not put it down. There is something so urgent and compelling about Bilal's story, as though he is speaking to our time. His story is not just for those interested in the arts; it is a human story of the horror, frustration, and tragedies of war."
—Mary Flanagan, artist and author of re:skin (MIT Press)
"This is an unsettling and gripping book. It poignantly recounts a dark and imaginative experiment inspired by an excruciating and ghastly reality. Its unsettling effects couldn't be more welcome: we desperately need to be shocked out of our collective zombification, and this book does that by leading us through a wild labyrinth at once aesthetic, political, and existential. Potent stuff."
—Danny Postel, author of Reading "Legitimation Crisis" in Tehran
