As the police closed in, the protesters began to retreat, individually and in groups.
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“One of the trickiest, most mysterious secrets of the Arabic language is the root h-l-m.”
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Yet Iraqi literature continues, somehow, to blossom. There are older writers Fadhil al-Azzawi and Muhammad Khudayyir still at work (although the former in exile), and much younger ones, too: Thirtysomething Iraqi Hassan Blassim has been called “perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive.”
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