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Iraq’s Dreams and Tyranny
The Iraqi novelist Khudhair Faleh al-Zeidi’s novel *The Eye of al-Harati* tells the story of the reed vessel *Tigris*, built in Qurna under the supervision of Norwegian scholar Thor Heyerdahl. The search for the vessel serves as a way to recover stories and testimonies absent from the official narrative. Through doctoral student Ahmed Fuad Fattah and other figures connected to the project, the novel reveals the effects of repression under Ba’ath rule—from arrest and fear to the enduring wounds of tyranny in survivors’ memories. It sets the dream of communication between civilizations against a system of power founded on suspicion and exclusion. The novel uses multiple narrators and blends documents with memory and invention to resist forgetting, while also raising the critical concern that its many characters and stories may crowd out the narrative’s central thread.
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