From Abdullah al-Sakhi’s ‘Pathways of Loss’
“That day, Ali Salman went to watch the first public execution in al-Thawra City.”
Abdullah al-Sakhi
Abdullah al-Sakhi on Writing His Multigenerational Iraqi Trilogy
“In this first week, we focus on work by novelist Abdullah al-Sakhi, who was born in 1951, left Iraq in 1979, and published his first novel looking at Iraq’s internal migrants, Behind the Dam, in 2008.”