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Haroun Soussan, narrator of Outcast and a Jewish convert to Islam, is a civil engineer and historian who’s just completed his life’s work, The Jews and History. The book opens with him getting an award from Saddam Hussein during the time of the Iran-Iraq war. Written in the form of an autobiography, the narrative moves in and out of the present, the recent, and more distant past, providing a unique and intimate chronicle of Iraq’s contemporary political history.

Shimon Ballas was born in Baghdad in 1930 and immigrated to Israel in 1951.

Outcast

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    A Paperback / softback by Shimon Ballas, Ammiel Alcalay, Oz Shelach

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      Publisher: City Lights Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/06/2007
      ISBN13: 9780872864818, 978-0872864818
      ISBN10: 872864812

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      Book Synopsis

      Haroun Soussan, narrator of Outcast and a Jewish convert to Islam, is a civil engineer and historian who’s just completed his life’s work, The Jews and History. The book opens with him getting an award from Saddam Hussein during the time of the Iran-Iraq war. Written in the form of an autobiography, the narrative moves in and out of the present, the recent, and more distant past, providing a unique and intimate chronicle of Iraq’s contemporary political history.

      Shimon Ballas was born in Baghdad in 1930 and immigrated to Israel in 1951.

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