Zuheir El-Hetti

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Zuheir El-Hetti is an award-winning Iraqi writer and journalist, born in 1957 and currently living in Germany. He has published four novels, including My Distant Day (2002), American Dust (2009), Days of Dust (2016), and Ember's Den (2020). He is also the author of an academic study: The Image of the Iraqi in the Arabic Novel (2006).

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Books by Zuheir El-Hetti

The Baghdad Villa

By Zuheir El-Hetti

Translated by Samira Kawar

A young Iraqi woman watches her family life collapse amid the country's political turmoil, turning to the seven world-famous paintings hanging in her family's Baghdad villa to make sense of the chaos around her. A work of translated fiction written by an award-winning Iraqi writer and journali...

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