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Sep 2023
1h 54m

When Your Home Town Gets Invaded

ANDREW HEATON
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What's life like for a high schooler who's home town gets invaded by a foreign army? Ali Ali was living in historic Babylon, in Iraq, during the War on Terror. He joins to discuss what an invasion is like, what life is like in a lawless state, and his interpretations of the United States as an immigrant to it. 

 

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