When I was 12, Saddam Hussein, vice president of Iraq at the time, carried out a huge purge and officially usurped total power. I was living in Baghdad then, and I developed an intuitive, visceral hatred of the dictator early on. That feeling only intensified and matured as I did.
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An Introduction to Kareem Risan's "The Book of Sectarianism"
The Euphrates
is a long procession
Cities pat its shoulders
as palm trees weep
—Sinan Antoon [1]
In these ashen years following the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, Kareem Risa..