Heads Ripe for Plucking "Dictionaries Shedding a bright light on

Shedding a bright light on the rich diversity of Iraqi experience

Johann Hari

This is Iraq before and beyond Saddam

as they helped configure not only the country's politics but also the social and cultural practices of the well-to-do

Heads Ripe for Plucking "Dictionaries Shedding a bright light onMahmoud Al WardaniAn Arab tyrant once infamously declared, I see heads that are ripe for plucking. In Mahmoud Al Wardanis novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphoricaltorture, murder, decapitation, brainwashing, losing ones headare the subject of the six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from the most archetypal