An Iraqi in Paris Kendel Hippolyte

An Iraqi in Paris Kendel HippolyteA fully revised third edition in translation of this best selling 'gem of autobiographical writing' in the Arab world, by an author who has been called 'a relentless raconteur', 'a modern Odysseus', 'the Iraqi Don Quixote'. Providentially leaving Iraq just before Saddam Hussein installs himself as President, the Assyrian narrator of An Iraqi in Paris dreams of becoming a Hollywood film maker after his hero John Ford, but after arrest and torture in

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“His poems are charged with a thoroughly contemporary and a profoundly literary awareness of what it means to be Irish

in a poetry ‘made delightful by the elegance of Dunn’s art’ (Acumen)

French poetry - Louise Labé

the sectarian and ideological loyalties of religion

gender and longing

“Greetings

a woman who morphs into Elvis

from the eighties to the present day

gourmet cooks and the kitchen novice

desperation or hope

His death “has left a gaping wound in the heart of modern Arabic poetry”