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Echoes of Baghdad

By Megan Marz

Naphtalene, the first novel by an Iraqi woman to be published in the United States, has taken a long time to arrive here. A small Cairo press first published Alia Mamdouh’s second novel in 1986, just a few years after her controversial first novel, Leila and the Wolf, provoked the Iraqi government to prohibit her from publishing her work there.… return to article

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