Perception Wars

This book is Metti's journey toIraq under extraordinary familycircumstances. It describes personal andacademic challenges he encounteredby the need to acclimate to a newlanguage and culture. This story is also a depiction of culturalrejection aggravated by assimilationissues: He was compelled to live inplaces not of his choosing; to mastera tongue alien to his childhood; andto feel out of place every time hestepped outside the hospitable andgenerous embrace of his extended Iraqifamily into the corporal punishmentlandmines of Iraqi education.