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The Poet of Baghdad - A True Story of Love and Defiance (Paperback, Us)
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The Poet of Baghdad - A True Story of Love and Defiance (Paperback, Us)
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In the winter of 1979 Nabeel Yasin, Iraq's most famous young poet,
gathered together a handful of belongings and fled Iraq with his
wife and son. Life in Baghdad had become intolerable. Silenced by a
series of brutal beatings at the hands of the Ba'ath Party's Secret
Police and declared an "enemy of the state," he faced certain death
if he stayed.
Nabeel had grown up in the late 1950s and early '60s in a large and
loving family, amid the domestic drama typical of Iraq's new middle
class, with his mother Sabria working as a seamstress to send all
of her seven children to college. As his story unfolds, Nabeel
meets his future wife and finds his poetic voice while he is a
student. But Saddam's rise to power ushers in a new era of
repression, imprisonment and betrayal from which few families will
escape intact. In this new climate of intimidation and random
violence Iraqis live in fear and silence; yet Nabeel's mother tells
him "It is your duty to write." His poetry, a blend of myth and
history, attacks the regime determined to silence him. As Nabeel's
fame and influence as a poet grows, he is forced into hiding when
the Party begins to dismantle the city's infrastructure and impose
power cuts and food rationing. Two of his brothers are already in
prison and a third is used as a human minesweeper on the frontline
of the Iran-Iraq war. After six months in hiding, Nabeel escapes
with his wife and young son to Beirut, Paris, Prague, Budapest, and
finally England.
Written by Jo Tatchell, a journalist who has spent many years in
the Middle East and who is a close friend of Nabeel Yasin's,
"Nabeel's Song" is the gripping story of a family and its fateful
encounter with history. From a warm, lighthearted look at the Yasin
family before the Saddam dictatorship, to the tale of Nabeel's
persecution and daring flight, and the suspense-filled account of
his family's rebellion against Saddam's regime, "Nabeel's Song" is
an intimate, illuminating, deeply human chronicle of a country and
a culture devastated by political repression and war.
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