An Iraqi Man of Letters

(New York Times) Nicholas D. Kristof - Iraq's best-selling novelist is also a poet. If any book critic were rash enough to pan his novels, he would have the offender's tongue cut out and his entire family beaten to death. Afterward he might write a poem extolling the massacre. That's Saddam Hussein for you.


2002-10-10 00:00:00

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