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Memoirs of a Baghdad Childhood depicts personal and family scenes, episodes, experiences, and impressions of the author's early life in Baghdad. Topics include the author's life in a newly-built house in "Kutchet es-Sa'ad," his "al-Azeel" and "al-Watani" school experiences, his passion for American and British films, his merchant brothers in the Shorja market, his family's enduring interest in Arabic music and musical instruments, observance of Sabbath and holy days, swimming lessons in the Tigris, the bustling "al-Rasheed Street," trips to Kifel and Ba'quba, and delightful nights on the...

'Why sheep?' he asks. 'Ba.ba.ba.' he bleats, 'because I feel like one. Ba .ba.ba.because I think I am one.'

While in a London hospital ward, he writes his confessions, memoirs, reveries, and musings-'butterflies of the mind to be preserved as personal cameos'-for the benefit of the ignorant...

Jesus of Nazareth's blasphemous statements, contradicting God's Torah and the teachings of the Hebrew Prophets, had earned him a place in "Gehinnom." His scheme of a Second Coming to smite all those that do not worship him as son of God and mankind's saviour led him to a second trial - this time by a Heavenly Sanhedrin. An array of biblical and extra-biblical persons cross-examine him or testify in the case. These include Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Zechariah, Micah, Obadiah, Daniel, Ezra the Scribe, a Pharisee and a Sadducee, Pontius Pilate, Joseph Caiaphas, the...

Earlier, Dr. Johnson--the American director of an archaeological institution where Nabeel's father works--attempts to get Nabeel released from prison. Troops storm his offices,...