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.
Zabibah and the King is a novel published in 2000. The CIA believes that he wrote the novel though he could have been assisted by ghost writer. It is tells the story of a powerful ruler in medieval Iraq who fell in love with a common girl known as Zabibah.
In Zabibah and the King, Zabibah, the girl in this love story has a very cruel husband who even rapes her. The setting is in Tikrit around the 7th and 8th centuries. It is worth considering that Saddam came from Tikrit. There were rumors that it was adapted in a movie featuring Sacha Baron Cohen but it turned out to be false. The book was edited by Lawrence Robert in 2004.
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 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 rallies Iraqis into uniting as a nation to safeguard gains made during war. This call is captured in the assertion by the mother of Sabah who is fighting off pressure to share property. In her opinion, she cannot divide the property since it is too valuable to be assigned monetary value. The property should only go to individuals who gave their blood in war. He also wrote a book by the name Men and the City but it did not receive as much attention.
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.
Begone Demons was again published by Tokuma Shoten Publishing in Japan, Tokyo in 2006. Eight thousand copies were printed under the title Devils Dance. The Turkish translation was done by Humam Khalil. In Jordan, Raghad Hussein attempted to publish it by printing a hundred thousand copies. The government stopped the publication. It has since not be published or distributed in any other language.
Zabibah and the King is a novel published in 2000. The CIA believes that he wrote the novel though he could have been assisted by ghost writer. It is tells the story of a powerful ruler in medieval Iraq who fell in love with a common girl known as Zabibah.
In Zabibah and the King, Zabibah, the girl in this love story has a very cruel husband who even rapes her. The setting is in Tikrit around the 7th and 8th centuries. It is worth considering that Saddam came from Tikrit. There were rumors that it was adapted in a movie featuring Sacha Baron Cohen but it turned out to be false. The book was edited by Lawrence Robert in 2004.
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 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 rallies Iraqis into uniting as a nation to safeguard gains made during war. This call is captured in the assertion by the mother of Sabah who is fighting off pressure to share property. In her opinion, she cannot divide the property since it is too valuable to be assigned monetary value. The property should only go to individuals who gave their blood in war. He also wrote a book by the name Men and the City but it did not receive as much attention.
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.
Begone Demons was again published by Tokuma Shoten Publishing in Japan, Tokyo in 2006. Eight thousand copies were printed under the title Devils Dance. The Turkish translation was done by Humam Khalil. In Jordan, Raghad Hussein attempted to publish it by printing a hundred thousand copies. The government stopped the publication. It has since not be published or distributed in any other language.
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