Nabeel's Song: A Family Story Of Survival In Iraq By Jo Tatchell

Nabeel's Song: A Family Story Of Survival In Iraq By Jo Tatchell

NABEEL S SONG is an epic true story of one family s experience of life before, during and after the regime of Saddam Hussein. Nabeel Yasin had an ordinary childhood, in a middle-class neighbourhood in 1950s Baghdad. He showed an early gift for poetry and as a young man became famous for it. But by the end of the 1970s Saddam s rise to power was encroaching on his life, and that of his family. Nabeel s brothers were arrested and he himself was denounced as an enemy of the state and fled Iraq in 1980. NABEEL S SONG tells his story, and that of the family that he left behind; his matriarch of a mother Sabria, his four brothers and their rebellion against Saddam s regime, and his two sisters - all ordinary people living in extraordinary and difficult times. This is a moving family story of exile and endurance. Jo Tatchell s moving narrative, from Nabeel s mouth, tells of endurance, literary resistance and the courage of a loving, close-knit family opporessed by tyranny and war The Times

About the Author

Jo Tatchell is a journalist who writes on Middle Eastern culture for UK and US media including the Guardian. Her first book, NABEEL S SONG, was published in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award; A DIAMOND IN THE DESERT followed in 2009.