Saeed was repeatedly imprisoned under successive Iraqi regimes for his fiction. His novel Saddam City (2004) draws directly on his prison experience under the Ba'th. He has lived in Chicago since the 1990s.
Recurring themes
Mosul and the Tigris cities
prison literature in Arabic
exile in the United States
Iraq across regimes
Selected works
- 1981I Am the One Who Saw
- 2004Saddam City
- 2011The World Through the Eyes of Angels