Zaid Brifkani
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Azad’s father was brutally executed by the Iraqi army. Since then, Azad has moved to the city of Duhok to pursue his education. In doing so he hopes to provide a new life for his family and his fiancée, Juwan, who are back in their home village. But as the Iran-Iraq War comes to an end, the Iraqi government launches the genocidal Anfal campaign against the Kurds. Fleeing separately across physical and emotional borders, Azad and Juwan find themselves...
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English
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Faisal, a young Iraqi man from Baghdad, loses his family and home and flees his country in the
aftermath of war. While stranded at the Belarus-Poland border during the infamous refugee
crisis of 2019 along with thousands of other migrants, he meets Gulistan, an Iraqi woman who
reminds him of his mother and who lost family members of her own.
So begins a multigenerational epic stretching back a hundred years of Iraq’s modern history, all
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