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Remembrance of things past
On the City of Peace, Baghdad; Bab Al-Taq; The Fall of Baghdad (1258); Coffeehouses of Baghdad; Ottoman Baghdad (descriptions extracted from various sources)
Muzaffar Al-Nawwab Remembers a distant childhood
Muzaffar Al-Nawwab is a renowned Iraqi poet, playwright and activist. Sinan Antoon interviewed him in Washington, May, 1996.
Mystery in Mesopotamia
Following the occupation of Palestine in 1948, Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920-1994), sought work in Baghdad, a city he fell in love with, one of whose natives he married, and which was to become the backdrop for most of his novels...
Longing for Baghdad
Born to a Saudi father and an Iraqi mother, novelist Abdel-Rahman Mounif (b.1933) spent his formative years in Amman before travelling to Baghdad to study for his university degree...
Doing good to people who don't want it
Freya Stark, Beyond Euphrates: Autobiography 1928-1933, London, 1951
A view from nowhere
Youssef Rakha recalls a country he has never seen
Echoes and flutters
Safynaz Kazem meditates on some melancholy Iraqi tunes
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On the banks of the Tigris
Extracted from Jamal Haydar, Baghdad: Malamih Madina fi Dhakirat Al-Sitinat (Baghdad: Memories of a City in the 1960s), Casablanca, 200
Baghdad's forgotten glory
Abu-Samih stood in front of his postcard kiosk, watching pedestrians in Al-Rasheed Street...
By Saad Hadi
Spiral of Iraqi memory
Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems, Saadi Youssef, translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
Reviewed by Ferial Ghazoul
An unquenchable thirst
'Alam Saddam Hussein (Saddam Hussein's World), Mahdi Haidar, Cologne: Al-Kamel Verlag, 2003. pp414
At a glance
A shorthand guide to Iraqi books compiled by Mahmoud El-Wardani
A personal song
A poem by Saadi Youssef; London, March 15, 2003
Wine and grief
A poem by Muzaffar Al-Nawwab
A horse for the stranger
To an Iraqi poet
By Mahmoud Darwish
Salute to Baghdad
A poem by Adonis; London, April 1, 2003
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