{"product_id":"baghdad-noir-paperback","title":"Baghdad Noir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamuel Shimon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Among them these writers encompass, if not a Baghdad entire, then at least a Baghdad of diverse experiences and perspectives, and absolutely a Baghdad focused on the Arabic world and not the Western.\" --\u003cem\u003eNPR Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This anthology's status as perhaps the first collection of Iraqi crime fiction ever published makes it a landmark.\" --\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with \u003cem\u003eBrooklyn Noir\u003c\/em\u003e. Each books comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, one of the world's most war-town cities is portrayed through a noir lens in this chilling story collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Brand-new stories by: Sinan Antoon, Ali Bader, Mohammed Alwan Jabr, Nassif Falak, Dheya al-Khalidi, Hussain al-Mozany, Layla Qasrany, Hayet Raies, Muhsin al-Ramli, Ahmed Saadawi, Hadia Said, Salima Salih, Salar Abdoh, and Roy Scranton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the introduction by Samuel Shimon: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile all Iraqis will readily agree that their life has always been noir, the majority of the stories in \u003cem\u003eBaghdad Noir\u003c\/em\u003e are set in the years following the American invasion of 2003, though one story is set in 1950 and three are set in the 1970s and 1980s. Yet it is this recent history of Iraq--over the last few decades--that serves to inform its present . . . Cementing the destruction of Iraqi life was Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. But that was hardly the end of Iraq's noir story. In April 2003, the US invasion, though it precipitated the end of Saddam's dictatorial rule, killed off any possibility of a secular, modern Iraq once and for all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Taken as a whole, the stories in Baghdad Noir testify to the enduring resilience of the Iraqi spirit amid an ongoing, real-life milieu of despair that the literary form of noir can at best only approximate. Yet the contributions here manage to hold their own as individual stories, where the rich traditions of intersecting cultures transcend the immediate political reality--even while being simultaneously informed by it. Much like the diverse tapestry of cultures that join together on the banks of the Tigris to form the City of Peace, \u003cem\u003eBaghdad Noir\u003c\/em\u003e reveals that there's nothing monolithic or ordinary about the voices of its writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Shimon\u003c\/b\u003e was born into an Assyrian family in Iraq in 1956. He is the cofounder of \u003ci\u003eBanipal, \u003c\/i\u003e the renowned international magazine of contemporary Arab literature in English translation, and the founder and editor of the popular Arabic literary website \u003ci\u003eKikah.\u003c\/i\u003e His autobiographical novel \u003ci\u003eAn Iraqi in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e was published in five languages, and he edited \u003ci\u003eBeirut39, \u003c\/i\u003e an anthology of new Arabic writin\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247471837433,"sku":"9781617753435","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/n3wmtaxr6C9781617753435.webp?v=1768626500","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/baghdad-noir-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}