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Continue to ChatCertain readers will read my book not because they are interested in Iraq, but because they read crime fiction. I did want to get beyond just speaking to other Middle East scholars, so I'm happy about that. But this was, nonetheless, a novel I wish I got to read in Arabic and translate. - Elliott Colla from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/certain-readers-will-read-my-book-not-because-they-are-interested-in-iraq-but-because-they-read-crime-fiction