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Philosopher Feigned Madness to Survive Hussein's Iraq
(Toronto Globe & Mail) Orly Halpern - Khudair Meeri, 38, spent years acting like a madman in order to avoid execution by the former Baathist regime for crimes of subversion. Today, he is a renowned philosopher in the Arab world and works with one of the psychiatrists who used to give him electric shock treatment.