Articles By Mahmoud Saeed
West Mosul Between ISIS Snipers and Allied Bombers: One False Move and You’re Dead
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Tuesday 20 October 2020 - Genre: Stories
Author’s Preface: I Won’t Return to Mosul I know I won’t return to Mosul. I won’t return to its pistachio, mulberry, and pomegranate orchards. I won’t see the gra...
مع الروائي العراقي الكبير محمود سعيد
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Saturday 9 May 2020 - Genre: Interviews
مـشكلـة الأدبـاء المنـفييـن بـدأت منــذ عـهـد غـارق وفي القـدم في مـختـلف الأمـكنـة اول واعظم رواية في العالم هي ألف ليلة وليلة وهي أجمل ما كتب في حقل الرواية في العصور كافة، ولا أعتقد أن يتمكن أي...
رواية الأسر
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews
كتبت عشرات الروايات بأقلام العراقيين عن الحرب العراقية الإيرانية، وأهوالها، لكن القليل من تلكم الروايات حظيت باهتمام النقاد الجادّين، وربما كان للإعلام الرسمي العراقي الدور الأكبر في التعتيم علي ذلك ا...
مزامير شاطئ أندلسي
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories
التفت إلي اليمين. من خلال النّظارات الشّمسية رأي التّاريخ. رقعة بخط يد أرجواني. فسفوريّ كبير: (نهائي كأس العالم اليوم 11 تموز 2010) حتي علي الشّاطئ يطفح الفرح بمتعة مشاهدة اللعبة. أينما يلتفت. يري رقع...
Figure in Repose
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
Boston University “Did you hear the doorbell ring?” He asked her, his eyes still closed. “Go back to sleep--it’s the athan(1). She turned her back to him, and her head san...
The Soldier and the pigs
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
Samer opened his eyes. What he saw scared him half to death. His heart was pounding violently against his rib cage. What on God's earth was this? An enormous snorting wild bore was lying on its b...
Joud and Hashem
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
The ringing of the phone came like a sharp slap. I woke up. “Who is it?” “I’m Tony,” a man’s voice said. “I’m very sorry to wake you up at this time.&r...
The Train
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
The four of them walked together, carrying backpacks like school children, except for the eldest, maybe a twelve-year old, who was dragging her wheeled luggage behind. They would walk a little, then r...
Bitter Morning
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
Professor, Boston University. Cock-a-doodle-do . . . cock-a-doodle-do. She was awakened by the cock’s shrill calls. She giggled. She turned her eyes to the window and called out at the cock....
فؤاد التكرلي متواضع وشامخ
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Wednesday 1 April 2009 - Genre: Biography
من أرومة مرموقة، مثقفة، ومنصب راقٍ، أطل التكرلي من علٍ على العراق ليجعله مختبره الشخصي، متحصلاً على أدوات تشريح مثالية. ولد التكرلي في بغداد سنة 1927، في عائلة ارستقراطية وصل سدة الإفتاء والقضاء غي...
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