Saeed Saddam City is a scathing, Kafkaesque indictment against Saddam Hussein's regime and the modern world's tendency to drift toward tyranny. Saeed, who was a political prisoner three times over and whose work was often banned or destroyed, hid the early unpublished pages of this novel (along with remarkable others) in plastic bags in the tank of his toilet before fleeing Iraq with them. External links https://web.archive.org/web/20111110221854/http://www.aljadid.com/content/memoriam-suheil-idriss-1925-2008-founder-al-adab-%E2%80%98moved-waters%E2%80%99-arab-literature Saddam City- I am the One Who Saw- Amzon Philip Jacobson:From A Syrian Prison To A Chicago Apartment: An Iraqi Refugee's Story ARAB SPRINGS:A Libyan Author Writes of Exile and a Vanished Father Sa-adi Samai in his novel: out of the bottle, Construction and significance of expression novelist Review of Saddam City http://www.blogger.com/profile/15702757653057354575 Mahmoud Saeed website Mahmoud Saeed blog (Arabic and English) 1939 births People from Mosul Iraqi emigrants to the United States DePaul University faculty Iraqi writers Living people