The Martyrdom of Ahmad Shawkat

by Michael Goldfarb

Ahmad Shawkat was an Iraqi Kurd who edited his own radical magazine--Bilattijah--during the last years of Saddam Hussein's rule and wrote enthusiastically about Iraq's future as a state free from tyranny, secular and religious, for which he was imprisoned and tortured on four different occasions.

When Michael Goldfarb went to Iraq the cover the Second Gulf War for the US's National Public Radio in 2003, Shawkat became his translator, guide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915023076
• ISBN13: 9781915023070
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Envelope Books
• Length: 389 Pages