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Mahmoud Saeed. Ben Barka Lane. Kay Heikkinen, tr. Northampton, Massachusetts. Interlink. 2013. isbn 9781566569262
Best known as the author of Sad- dam City (2003), a harrowing, partly autobiographical account of life in Saddam Hussein's police state, Mah- moud Saeed is a distinguished Iraqi novelist and short-story writer with more than twenty volumes to his credit (see WLT, Nov. 2012, 30-41). But Ben Barka Lane is not set in Iraq; and the novel is not among Saeed's latest works but rather dates from 1970, when he was in his early thir- ties. Banned in Iraq, it was published in Cairo in...