Amer Moayed
Photography: Mahmoud Raouf
Al-Rafidain House and Library continues to provide the Iraqi market with distinctive titles of new publications and in various disciplines, whether in poetry, novel, sociology, memoirs, philosophy and politics as well.
In the Iraqi House, it is located in a special place for it, and dozens of titles of books, including those issued at the Basra International Book Fair, and some of which were printed specifically for the absent Tohme Farman exhibition.
While wandering inside the pavilion, we found many new and varied publications, including by veteran writers and young people, as well as important translations of a number of books.
In poetry, the house printed the complete poetic works of Ahmed Sheikh Ali from 1985 to 2015, as well as the book of the poet Mubin Khashani and winner of the Rafidain Prize entitled “Kidnapped from the hand of comfort”.
Another new book published is the novel “Youssef Surra… Tales of the City Tavern” by Najm Wali and from him “Youssef and Younes are brothers and when they were young they fell in love with the girl with green eyes and blonde strands and blue jerseys. Because she was inclined to Joseph, Yunus stuffed her with nails.”
Abdelhadi Saadoun also translated stories by Juan Carlos de Sancho entitled “Hat Island”, and Sancho is a Spanish writer who founded the Puente Palo magazine for literature and art and one of the most active activists in introducing the literature of the Canary Islands in Spain and Latin America.
In the novel, Fatima Naimi also translated The Inmate of Wildville Palace because of his prone, as it is a powerful and realistic novel that may shock you when you remember the nature of society in the time period in which it was launched, as it defies the prevailing norms at the time.
Among the memoirs was an important book that was frequently asked and asked because it concerns former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld entitled The Announced and the Hidden and talks about his beginning in office under US President George W. Bush and also reviews the challenges that prevailed in his tenure during the attacks of the eleventh of September and the war on Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as frank remarks about the differences in views within the Pentagon and with other members of the National Security Council.
The researcher Saeed Al-Ghanmi had a book entitled Keys to the Narrative Cabinets, which consists of ten chapters in which he discusses the major narrative varieties in ancient Arabic literature, starting from the heroic tale before Islam and passing through the historical narrative. And the story of the vision, the story of animals, and the popular biography.