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 The journey is over, gentle readers. Today is the publishing birthday for *Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore* from *The New Press*.
 
-This book answers (to my satisfaction, if no one elses) the question that I posed in my graduate school application in 1998. Why did the memory of a Syrian teenager become my history in my mid 1980s Lahore? My path to becoming a historian is tied intimately to this question--a version of this quest prompted me to get a second BA in History and another version became the contours of my PhD training. The answer took me all these two-and-a-half decades and stretch across an unpublished dissertation and three monographs--*A Book of Conquest* (2016), *The Loss of Hindustan* (2020), and now *Disrupted City* (2024).
+This book answers (to my satisfaction, if no one elses) the question that I posed in my graduate school application in 1998. Why did the memory of a early eighth century Syrian teenager become my history in my mid 1980s Lahore? My path to becoming a historian is tied intimately to this question--a version of this quest prompted me to get a second BA in History and another version became the contours of my PhD training. The answer took me all these two-and-a-half decades and stretch across an unpublished dissertation and three monographs--*A Book of Conquest* (2016), *The Loss of Hindustan* (2020), and now *Disrupted City* (2024).
 
 Along the way, I kept to the intuition that the question did not have an answer just in history, nor History, nor memory, nor nationalism but a synthesis of all above. I will not belabor the point but I want to just bask in the relief that it is all done. This singular question that has haunted me for so long is finally off my shoulders and I can think of something else, and write about the US empire again.