Dead Poets Society
It is agonizingly difficult to write about one's hometown as it drowns
in flames and suffocates with smoke.
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It is agonizingly difficult to write about one's hometown as it drowns
in flames and suffocates with smoke.
A tribute to the premier Arab poet of the past half-century.
The Iraqi-American writer and Brandeis professor Kanan Makiya is
nowadays considered by many in the United States to be the Iraqi
dissident par excellence.
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