Mahmoud Saeed

Mahmoud Saeed was born in Mosul in 1939. He began writing short stories early, received a newspaper's prize in 1956 and published a first collection the following year. After the coup d'état of 1963, in which two of his novel manuscripts were destroyed, he was imprisoned and saw other books banned in 1968 and in 1970. He taught Arabic in Iraq and Morocco, then settled in the United States, where he taught at DePaul University in Chicago. He died in January 2025.

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• NovelSaddam Cityأنا الذي رأىMahmoud Saeed · 1981Literature