Babylon’s Shadow
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Chapter 10 With time, we constantly eat chickpeas to get protein. Our stomachs become very bloated. We are nations that make farts. We cannot sit down one minute without farting. We fart in the street, at home, on the bus, in the re-election of the president, with the birds, with cyclones, with the rain, with the dust, in front of friends, in front of the president, behind the president, in front of women, behind the cows, during prayer, and when we drink beer. But Mr. President did not fart; he was eating well. Every day thousands of meals. were made in the palaces of Mr. President and then thrown in the rubbish. If you approach this rubbish, they will kill you. There are dozens of presidential palaces in Iraq, and you can imagine the amount of food that is thrown away every day. Why not give us this food, Mr. President? Why does he not invite the poor to eat? We die of hunger, nudity, sadness, tragedy, and anguish. If we got a hundred dollars somehow, sent from outside Iraq, we would go to the stock market and change them. When you find it at a great price, intelligence officers arrest you and confiscate dollars. Then you become a dog, just entreating them to release you, but the dollar is going to hell. p 165 The First Lady said if we want to live like the people of the UAE, we need to get rid of three-quarters of the Iraqi people. Ali Hassan al-Majid, cousin of the president, also he said he was ready to sacrifice three-quarters of the Iraqi people for sublimity of the Arab nation. We are in front of phobia and strange animals wearing clothes; generals lead us in funny wars.
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This is a second Testified for the death of Iraq, accordance with the prophecies. In 1981, the war between Iran and Iraq broke out, lasting eight years. It was an animalism war. After the end of the Iran-Iraq war, a second war directly broke out when Saddam Hussein conquered Kuwait in 1991. As Saddam Hussein lost the war, this caused the imposition of the economic blockade. The siege was too harsh and bitterly, which stretched for years. Society began to collapse, turning Iraq into a failed state. This novel is about the life of a writer who suffered repression during the period between the end of the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf war in 1991, with the siege as well as the barbarism of Saddam Hussein and his regime. FROM THE EDITOR Babylon’s Shadow is an interesting novel. The book’s setting is exotic, which will interest readers who are unfamiliar with the culture the author writes about. The story is intriguing, and it provides an insight into the conflict in the Middle East.
About the Author
Born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1962. Studied production engineering at the University of Technology. He discontinued his studies, however, to devote his time to literary writing. Worked at the Iraqi, Jordanian, and Palestinian Press. Participated in the Iran-Iraq war (1980) and the Gulf War (1991). Lived under siege since the beginning of 1990. Had a warrant for his arrest as a result of publishing a short story. Left Baghdad in 1996 and joined political opposition, No-Fly Zone. Left northern Iraq and immigrated to Canada in 1999. Published five novels in Arabic. Prizes International France Radio for short stories in 1994 Naji Naaman, Beirut in 2007