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Many American journalists spent the beginning of the Iraq war embedded with the troops storming toward Baghdad. But Arab-American reporter Anthony Shadid was already in the Iraqi capital, and with his fluent command of the Arabic language he was able to get a different perspective on the war. Shadid spoke about his new book, "Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War," recently at the Commonwealth Club of California.

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