The reign of Saddam Hussein as the president of Iraq lasted for twenty four years between 1979 and 2003. It ended with the invasion of Iraq and his capture by US forces. His execution by hanging in 2006 December 30th marked the end of a dictatorial era. In his life, he is said to have penned down four novels and a collection of poems though he never signed off with his name. All purported Saddam Hussein Books were authored under He Who Wrote It.
According to CIA, the former president of Iraq was the author of Zabibah and the King, a novel released in 2000. It is possible that he employed the assistance of one or several ghost writers. It features a love story between a commoner girl named Zabibah and the mighty ruler of medieval Iraq.
Zabibah is married to a rapist and cruel husband. The setting is Tikrit somewhere in the 7th or 8th century. Saddam was interestingly born in Tikrit. A new edition of the book was released in 2004, having been edited by Lawrence Robert. There was a rumor that the movie where Sacha Baron Cohen starred was adapted from this story but it turned out not to be true.
The 713 pages novel entitle The Fortified Castle captured the allegory of Iraq as a nation. It hit the shelves in 2001 and features a hero of the famous Iraq-Iran War. The hero plans to marry a Kurdish girl, but there are delays to the ceremony. The three main characters in the story are two brothers, Sabah and Mahmud and a lady called Shatrin. The brothers come from a farming family living on the banks of Tigris River. Shatrin is the third character, a lady who hails from Suleimaniya.
The meeting point for the three characters is University of Baghdad. This happens after Sabah has escaped from the Iran captives who held him and his friends as prisoners of the Iraq-Iran war. He was captured after getting wounded in the battle fields.
The Fortified Castle is a depiction of Iraq. The idea fronted in the text is the value of unity. The proposal to divide the property is met with resistance by the mother of the war hero. In her assertion, the value of properties in question cannot be quantified in monetary terms. She stands by the principle that only those who fought for it with their blood should have a share. The third publication was Men and the City which did not gain much popularity.
Begone, Demons has several English translation of its title including Get Out You Damned. According to CIA, it was completed a day before Iraq was invaded by US forces. It is a story that propagates the theory of Zionist-Christian conspiracy against Muslims and Arabs. It mirrors the destruction of the Twin Towers in US, commonly known as September 11th attack. The Christian-Muslim wedge is clear right from the names given to characters.
Tokuma Shoten Publishing of Japan edited and released the same book in 2006 under a different title Devils Dance. Humam Khalil released a Turkish translation years later. Raghad wanted to release the same book in Jordan by printing and circulating one hundred thousand copies. The government declined its publication which means that it was never translated and distributed in any other language.
According to CIA, the former president of Iraq was the author of Zabibah and the King, a novel released in 2000. It is possible that he employed the assistance of one or several ghost writers. It features a love story between a commoner girl named Zabibah and the mighty ruler of medieval Iraq.
Zabibah is married to a rapist and cruel husband. The setting is Tikrit somewhere in the 7th or 8th century. Saddam was interestingly born in Tikrit. A new edition of the book was released in 2004, having been edited by Lawrence Robert. There was a rumor that the movie where Sacha Baron Cohen starred was adapted from this story but it turned out not to be true.
The 713 pages novel entitle The Fortified Castle captured the allegory of Iraq as a nation. It hit the shelves in 2001 and features a hero of the famous Iraq-Iran War. The hero plans to marry a Kurdish girl, but there are delays to the ceremony. The three main characters in the story are two brothers, Sabah and Mahmud and a lady called Shatrin. The brothers come from a farming family living on the banks of Tigris River. Shatrin is the third character, a lady who hails from Suleimaniya.
The meeting point for the three characters is University of Baghdad. This happens after Sabah has escaped from the Iran captives who held him and his friends as prisoners of the Iraq-Iran war. He was captured after getting wounded in the battle fields.
The Fortified Castle is a depiction of Iraq. The idea fronted in the text is the value of unity. The proposal to divide the property is met with resistance by the mother of the war hero. In her assertion, the value of properties in question cannot be quantified in monetary terms. She stands by the principle that only those who fought for it with their blood should have a share. The third publication was Men and the City which did not gain much popularity.
Begone, Demons has several English translation of its title including Get Out You Damned. According to CIA, it was completed a day before Iraq was invaded by US forces. It is a story that propagates the theory of Zionist-Christian conspiracy against Muslims and Arabs. It mirrors the destruction of the Twin Towers in US, commonly known as September 11th attack. The Christian-Muslim wedge is clear right from the names given to characters.
Tokuma Shoten Publishing of Japan edited and released the same book in 2006 under a different title Devils Dance. Humam Khalil released a Turkish translation years later. Raghad wanted to release the same book in Jordan by printing and circulating one hundred thousand copies. The government declined its publication which means that it was never translated and distributed in any other language.
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