Perception Wars

This book is Metti’s journey to

Iraq under extraordinary family

circumstances. It describes personal and

academic challenges he encountered

by the need to acclimate to a new

language and culture.

This story is also a depiction of cultural

rejection aggravated by assimilation

issues: He was compelled to live in

places not of his choosing; to master

a tongue alien to his childhood; and

to feel out of place every time he

stepped outside the hospitable and

generous embrace of his extended Iraqi

family into the corporal punishment

landmines of Iraqi education.