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Set in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2005, Ahmed Saadawi’s novel Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) tells the story of a supernatural monster, the Whatsitsname, who commits a series of murders in a country already torn apart by terrorist attacks and sectarian violence (conflict between different religious groups).
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A modern take on Mary Shelley's tale of a man composed of body parts and raised in the interest of biology, this Frankenstein story has a far more sinister intent. Frankenstein In Baghdad,set in the backdrop of the U.S. occupation in Baghdad, a junk dealer named Hadi creates his own form of the monster with the intention of making the government re...
Daniel, the Whatsit, or even Suspect X as he is also known by the police and media, remembers crimes that parts of him were connected to and tries to right those wrongs by killing and avenging those that were harmed. The pieces that make up Daniel feed his memory, and when he has done this task, that piece then falls off. After a while, Daniel feel...
Ahmed Saadawi grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, during a time when books were scarce. Due to the Iraqi state’s censorship of many books, along with international sanctions on the country from 1990 to 2003, Saadawi had access to very few books while growing up. Despite these difficult circumstances, he developed an intense passion for literature.
Hasib Mohamed Jaafar. This 21-year-old man, working as a hotel guard at the Sadeer Novotel Hotel is killed in a suicide bombing: a garbage truck driven by a terrorist explodes in front of the hotel where he is… read analysis of Hasib Mohamed Jaafar.
Mar 1, 2013 · From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi--a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local café--collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial.
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Mahmoud al-Sawadi. Mahmoud is a journalist at al-Haqiqa, a Baghdadi magazine, and the primary receiver of Hadi’s story. Mahmoud is originally from Amara, but a dispute with a local gangster-turned-politician forced him to move to Baghdad.
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Frankenstein in Baghdad (Arabic: فرانكشتاين في بغداد) is a 2013 Arabic novel written by the Iraqi writer Ahmed Saadawi. It won the IPAF award (International Prize for Arabic Fiction) for 2014. [1] The novel was translated into English by Jonathan Wright.
