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Hundreds of thousands of Sunni Muslims displaced or exiled by the conflict in Iraq have spread across the Middle East, unbalancing that sensitive region. From Amman to Beirut and Damascus, Deborah Amos follows the impact of one of the great migrations of modern times.
The history of the Middle East tells us that one of the greatest problems of the last forty years has been that of a displaced population, angered by their inability to safely return home and resume ownership of their property—as they see it. Now, the pattern has been repeated. A new population of exiles, as large as the Palestinians, has been created.
This particular displacement stirs up the historic conflict between Sunni and Shia. More significant even than the creation of colonial nation states a century ago, the alienation of the Sunni middle class has the capacity to cause resounding resentments across the region for generations to come.
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Deborah Amos covers Iraq for NPR News. Her reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She spent a decade working in television news, including ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight and the PBS programs NOW with Bill Moyers and Frontline. She lives in New York City.
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Veteran Middle East correspondent Amos examines a generally underreported consequence of the Iraq war: the exodus of several million Iraqis, predominantly Sunni Muslims, who have fled Iraq to escape civil strife and persecution at the hands of the newly dominant Shiite majority. Flooding into Little Baghdad communities in Damascus, Amman, and Beirut, the Iraqi exiles have strained Iraq’s relations with its neighbors and dramatically transformed the demographics of the entire region. Introducing us to several Iraqi exiles, among them a politically subversive actor who cannot go home, a young woman maimed because of her father’s work with the Americans, and a proud mother who has turned to the sex trade for survival, Amos emphasizes the human struggles and tragedies that have defined Sunni exile and the profound impact the exodus has had on the Sunni community. In doing so, she also probes the morass of conflicting Iraqi and U.S. policies that have caused or exacerbated the situation and reminds us that the success of a secular, modern Iraq depends upon the reversal of the exodus. --Brendan Driscoll
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