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.
Zabibah is married to a cruel husband who goes to the extent of raping her. The book is set in Tikrit, the birth town of Saddam, in the 7th or 8th century. Robert Lawrence edited the novel in 2004 in subsequent editions. Sacha Baron Cohen is said to have featured in a Hollywood adaptation of the book but the rumor was dispelled.
The Fortified Castle is a 713 pages novel that was released in 2001. It is an allegory of a delayed wedding of a hero of the Iraq-Iran war. The hero is supposed to get married to a Kurdish girl. It features three main characters. Two of them are brothers named Mahmud and Sabah. They come from the rural western bank of Tigris River and are born of a farming family. The third character is Shatrin, a lady 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 considered a clarion call to Iraqis to unite. The mother of the war hero is confronted by pressure to divide their wealth. She does not bow to the pressure, insisting that the property is impossible to buy using money. In her words, the property can only be claimed by those who fought and shed their blood for it. A third book entitled Men and the City never got the attention given to the other titles.
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.
Zabibah is married to a cruel husband who goes to the extent of raping her. The book is set in Tikrit, the birth town of Saddam, in the 7th or 8th century. Robert Lawrence edited the novel in 2004 in subsequent editions. Sacha Baron Cohen is said to have featured in a Hollywood adaptation of the book but the rumor was dispelled.
The Fortified Castle is a 713 pages novel that was released in 2001. It is an allegory of a delayed wedding of a hero of the Iraq-Iran war. The hero is supposed to get married to a Kurdish girl. It features three main characters. Two of them are brothers named Mahmud and Sabah. They come from the rural western bank of Tigris River and are born of a farming family. The third character is Shatrin, a lady 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 considered a clarion call to Iraqis to unite. The mother of the war hero is confronted by pressure to divide their wealth. She does not bow to the pressure, insisting that the property is impossible to buy using money. In her words, the property can only be claimed by those who fought and shed their blood for it. A third book entitled Men and the City never got the attention given to the other titles.
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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