What was it like to live in Iraq before the earthshaking events of the late twentieth century? The midseventies to the late eighties witnessed Saddam Husseins rise to power, the establishment of Kurdish autonomy in the north, and the IraqIran war. It also brought an influx of oil wealth, following the 1973 war and the spike in oil prices, and a parallel influx of Arab talent, including many Egyptians.We witness all of this and more through the eyes of an Egyptian woman married to an engineer working in Iraq. The narrator, who works for an Egyptian magazines bureau in the Iraqi capital, has a behindthescenes view of what was really happening at a critical juncture in the history of the region. Moreover, she has a mystery to solve an Iraqi woman from the marshes in the south has disappeared, and as the mystery unfolds we learn of her love for an older Egyptian Marxist journalist. This is Iraq before and beyond Saddam, Iraq as the Arabs knew it, in the lives of interesting people living in a vibrant country before the attempted annexation of Kuwait and the American invasion. This is the Iraq that was . . .

Binding: Paperback;490 pages; Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press; Classification: FF; Weight: 834 g; Dimensions: 160 x 229 x 26

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