in various cultures. I find that war is a kind of plague whose outburst can always be prevented." The Flight of the Swans "There are words that hurt when they are said, and there are words that injure more when they are unsaid." The Flight of the Swans "Universal literature does not need a passport or visa from this or that ruler. It crosses borders, and like water its passes above and below, and from the bowels of the earth it is borne on the wings of the wind." "The most valued tangible homeland is possibly the woman you love." Aida “I am leaving Iraq for good. For the rest of my life. Till the day I die I shall not see the Tigris. I will be standing in a strange street, in a strange city, and I will scream but no one will hear me… And I know not how this differs from death.” A Handful of Fog "Literature is the Bible for the secular, a bible that is written and rewritten in beautiful, diverse variations. Buried beneath the attractive cover is a social human message, no less than in any other religion." Unbounded Ideas References External links The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) – [www.acri.org.il/eng/] [www.stanford.edu/dept/jewishstudies/events/sami michael conf/ 2007 Conference: Sami Michael and Jewish Iraqi Literature] Am Oved publishing house – Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Publishing house Forget Baghdad, a film by Samir סמי מיכאל (Sami Michael) from the Hebrew-language Wikipedia. Retrieved November 24, 2005. "Sami Michael" at the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature. Retrieved November 24, 2005. "Sami Michael". Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2003. Portrait of Sami Michael by artist Eric H. Gould www.haaretz.com/print-edition/.../ever-onward-1.382056 1926 births Living people Iraqi Jews Writers from Baghdad Iraqi writers Iraqi emigrants to Israel Israeli Jews Israeli communists Israeli novelists Israeli secularists Brenner Prize recipients Israeli translators Jewish writers Tudeh Party of Iran members Israeli human rights activists EMET Prize recipients in Culture and Art Israeli newspaper editors Iraqi people of Israeli descent