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I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody by Sinan Antoon, Rebecca C. Johnson, Elias Khoury, Sinan Antun Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-10: 0-87286-457-X / 087286457X ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-457-3 / 9780872864573 An inventory of the General Security headquarters in central Baghdad reveals an obscure manuscript. Written by a young man in detention, the prose moves from prison life, to adolescent memories, to frightening hallucinations, and what emerges is a portrait of life in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. In the tr |