Heads Ripe for Plucking "Dictionaries This is Iraq before and

This is Iraq before and beyond Saddam

inspiring and uplifting

Deborah Manley

including investigations into the materiality and colonial foundations of cosmopolitanism

Heads Ripe for Plucking "Dictionaries This is Iraq before andMahmoud Al WardaniAn Arab tyrant once infamously declared, I see heads that are ripe for plucking. In Mahmoud Al Wardanis novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphoricaltorture, murder, decapitation, brainwashing, losing ones headare the subject of the six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from the most archetypal