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Basrayatha (Paperback)

By: Mohammed Khudayyir (Author)

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"[A] densely poetic, ornately written tribute to the southern Iraqi city of Basra....Chapters flow like the rivers, touching on neighborhoods, history and colorful characters." (starred review)

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Mohammed Khudayyir's BASRAYATHA is a gorgeous and lyrical ode to the Iraqi city of Basra, located in-between the Tigris and Euphrates, in the cradle of ancient civilization. For Khudayyir, Basrayatha is both a real and a mythical place, existing simultaneously in history and in a thousand fables and folktales.

Fabulous and evocative portrait of the Iraqi city of Basra, the "Venice of the Middle East"
"Basrayatha" is a literary tribute by author Muhammad Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq. Just as a city's inhabitants differ from outsiders through their knowledge of its streets and stories, so Khudayyir distinguishes between the real city of Basra and the imagined city he created through stories, experiences, and folklore. By turns a memoir, a travelog, a love letter, and a meditation, Basrayatha summons up a city long gone, yet which lives on in the memories and imaginations of its people. In the tradition of Calvino and Borges, Khudayyir's mesmerizing work itself illuminates and enriches the story of this magnificent city.

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