One of the highlights is an extract from Ahmad Saadawi's novel, Frankenstein in Baghdad, a grim re-telling of Mary Shelley's novel featuring a monster created from the body parts of bombing victims. I'm not sure if this is a work of genius or just bad taste, but I'd tempted to go for the former. I wanted to read the full novel, but apparently it isn't available yet.
Another piece of writing by Ahmad Saadawi which covers a similar theme is an essay called Image of an Incomplete Body, which can be read online here.
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