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Saddam City

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ISBN-10: 0863563503

ISBN-13: 9780863563508

Edition: 2004

Authors: Mahmoud Saeed

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Exposes the secret workings of Saddam Hussein's brutal police state from within Based on the true experience of one man's brutal interrogation, incarceration, and separation from his family One morning Mustafa Ali Noman, a teacher in Baghdad, is arrested as he reaches the school gates. For the next 15 months he is brutally interrogated, moved from prison to prison and barred from contacting his family; he witnesses countless scenes of torture. It becomes clear to Mustafa along his journey through the desert gulags that the question of guilt or innocence is irrelevant ... 'How do I know that I am not dreaming this?' he asks, as, under intolerable pressure, his grasp of reality begins to…    
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Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Saqi Books
Publication date: 4/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Mahmoud Saeed, a prominent and prolific Iraqi novelist, has written more than twenty novels and short story collections. He lived in Iraq until 1985, suffering imprisonment and the banning of some of his novels.