Playbill

September, 2011

How did you spend your summer?Take any trips? Paula Froelich vacationed in the sun and sand of Iraq, where she was led on a tense nine-day cultural tour under the auspices of the Iraqi Minis­try of Tourism. In Down and Out in Baghdad Froelich recounts her bizarre sojourn. "Have fun," an American contractor tells her when she arrives at the Baghdad airport. "Don't get killed." The newly divorced Mike Sager found himself adrift in another desert—the Mojave—while tracking down r...