title: The Forgotten Tale of Larsa
author:  Seja Majeed 
description: Seja Majeed is a British Iraqi with an Honours degree in law from Brunel Law School and a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the City Law School, London. She also has a diploma in Leadership and Public Policy from the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. She has worked for Shell International Petroleum within the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and Iraq. Sejas family left Iraq in 1980 due to the IranIraq War, and Seja was born in 1986 in Algeria. One year later, her family moved to the United Kingdom, where they claimed asylum due to civil unrest escalating in Algeria. In 1980 her uncle, Naeem Al-taki, was executed by hanging at the age of twenty-one, due to joining a university club that spoke out against Iraqs Baath regime. In 1986, another uncle, Helmi Al-taki, was taken by the Baath regime. He was placed in Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad, where he was frequently tortured. Sejas mother was pregnant with Seja at the time. He was last seen in 1991. For many years, Sejas family searched for Helmi Al-taki, but it was only in 2003, after the collapse of the Baath regime, that they realised he was most likely buried in a mass grave, since he was not released from prison. To this day, Sejas family have no idea what happened to him, or how he may have died. Seja says, From the moment I was born I knew about war and death, without anyone having to explain it to me. It became a part of my being, to know that people were hungry to kill and destroy everything around them. I was helpless to do anything but comfort my mother. I would hear her cry, knowing that so much injustice had been done to her family. She had lost everything, except her hope that maybe she would find her brother alive. Her novel is dedicated to her uncles and her homeland. www.theforgottentaleoflarsa.com www.instagram.com/sejamajeed
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  Table of Contents
  
  [Title Page](Lars_9780307431585_epub_tp_r1.htm)
  
  [Dedication](Lars_9780307431585_epub_ded_r1.htm)
  
  [Epigraph](Lars_9780307431585_epub_epi_r1.htm)
  
  [Foreword](Lars_9780307431585_epub_frw_r1.htm)
  
  [Notes](Lars_9780307431585_epub_fm1_r1.htm)
  
  [INTRODUCTION](Lars_9780307431585_epub_itr_r1.htm)
  
  [PART ONE - ENCOUNTER](Lars_9780307431585_epub_p01_r1.htm)
  
  [ONE](Lars_9780307431585_epub_c01_r1.htm)
  
  [TWO](Lars_9780307431585_epub_c02_r1.htm)
  
  [THREE](Lars_9780307431585_epub_c03_r1.htm)
  
  [FOUR](Lars_9780307431585_epub_c04_r1.htm)
  
  [PART TWO - RE-ENCOUNTER](Lars_9780307431585_epub_p02_r1.htm)
  
  [ONE](Lars_9780307431585_epub_c05_r1.htm)
  
  [TWO](Lars_9780307431585_epub_c06_r1.htm)
  
  [THREE](Lars_9780307431585_epub_c07_r1.htm)
  
  [FOUR](Lars_9780307431585_epub_c08_r1.htm)
  
  [PART THREE - FINALE](Lars_9780307431585_epub_p03_r1.htm)
  
  [ONE](Lars_9780307431585_epub_c09_r1.htm)
  
  [TWO](Lars_9780307431585_epub_c10_r1.ht