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Chủ Nhật, 8 tháng 3, 2015

A Summary Of Saddam Hussein Books

By Leslie Ball


Saddam Hussein reigned as the president of Iraq between 1979 and 2003. His twenty four year rule was ended by US forces in an invasion that led to his capture, trial, sentence to hang and execution on 30th December, 2006. The known Saddam Hussein books are four and an additional collection of poems. He never used his name as the author and instead preferred 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 Fortified Castle is one of the best allegories of Iraq as a nation and state. It comes in 713 pages and was released to the market in 2001. The hero fought in the Iraq-Iran war and is planning to marry a Kurdish girl. His plans are facing hitches from all angles. The plot is made up of three main characters, a lady called Shatrin and two brothers, Mahmud and Sabah. The two come from the western bank of Tigris River while the lady comes from Suleimaniya.

The three main actors in The Fortified Castle plot meet while attending University of Baghdad. Sabah has fought in the Iraq-Iran war, gotten wounded and captured as a war slave. His heroism lies in his escape and ability to take several of his friends during the dash to freedom.

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 is loosely translated in English to mean Get Out You Cursed. CIA presumes that its completion was a day before US invasion into Iraq. The story is laden with Zionist-Christian propaganda against Arabs and Muslims. The plot features an attack on some twin towers, a mirror of what happened on September 11th in US. The author shows a clear Muslim-Christian conflict through selective and deliberate naming of characters within the plot.

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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