Saddam’s Novel: “Get out, damned one”
Written by Haitham Sabbah on 25. June 2005, 0947hrs // Part of Haitham Sabbah's adventure in Culture, Iraq, Jordan // Other posts by Haitham Sabbah
A novel Saddam Hussein reportedly finished writing a day before the U-S-led war in Iraq began will be published next week. The book includes a dedication from his daughter which reads: “to the one who taught us all the great values.”
Saddam Hussein’s family will publish next week a novel written by the ousted Iraqi leader before the United States-led war on Iraq.
“Ekhroj Minha Ya Mal’un“, whose title could be translated into “Get out, damned one“, tells the story of a man called Ezekiel who plots to overthrow a town’s sheikh, but is defeated in his quest by the sheikh’s daughter and an Arab warrior.
The story is apparently a metaphor for a Zionist-Christian plot against Arabs and Muslims. Ezekiel is meant to symbolise the Jews.
The novel opens with a narrator, who bears a resemblance to the Jewish, Christian and Muslim patriarch Abraham, telling cousins Ezekiel, Youssef and Mahmoud that Satan lives in the ruins of Babylon destroyed by the Persians and the Jews.
Ezekiel is portrayed as greedy, ambitious and destructive. Youssef, who symbolizes the Christians, is portrayed as generous and tolerant � at least in the early passages.
“Even if you seize all the property of others, you will suffer all your life,” the narrator tells him.
A Jordanian company will first publish the book in Arabic and follow with an English and French editions.
Raghad Saddam Hussein also wrote a dedication to her father on the book’s back cover:
“To the beat of the heart, to the eye and to the father of the Iraqis… to the creator of men and heroes… to the one who taught us all the great values.
You, who raised our heads high, the heads of the Iraqis, the Arabs and the Muslims … we present to you our souls … to the father of the heroes, to my beloved and dear father, with all my respect and glory to you.”
Two other books — “Zabiba and the King” and “The Impregnable Fortress” — have been attributed to Saddam although each was released as a novel written “by its author”.
Published in 2001, “Zabiba and the King” is considered Saddam’s first work of fiction. It tells of a love story between a simple girl and the king of ancient Mesopotamia which is seen as symbolising the relationship between Saddam and his people.
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June 25th, 2005 at 12:38 pm
Saddam’s Novel: “Get out, damned one”
A novel Saddam Hussein reportedly finished writing a day before the U-S-led war in Iraq began will be published next week. The book includes a dedication from his daughter which reads: “to the one who taught us all the…
June 26th, 2005 at 2:15 am
Great Values like what? Rearing sons that prowl the streets of Iraq looking to rape women if they refuse to have sex? Then leaving them to satisfy large groups of soldiers. And then finally having rabid starving dogs eat them alive? Some great values. Read Reader’s Digest dont remember the date or the issue no. but a really great article on Saddam’s Dog’s of War
June 26th, 2005 at 10:56 am
Reminds me of the great values that US army is practicing in Guanatamo and Abu Gharib.
Sames values, differnt names. It is called greed and injustice.
June 28th, 2005 at 3:07 pm
True never said my own country is doing anything right
September 4th, 2005 at 10:35 pm
Dear haithem escuse me to write in french because i’m bad in english.
Les internautes doivents savoir que saddam hussein n’a jamais ecrit un livre méme si certains livres tels zebiba et le roi ..fonts croire que c’est l’oeuvre de saddam..
Il est claire que saddam comme beaucoup de derigeants arabes ne savents méme pas ecrire une lettre..
L’ensembles des ouevres de saddam sont ecritent par l’egyptien:
DJAMEL EL GHITANI.
With regard.