The leader maps and weapons

Author's name: Ali Badrar Publisher: Al-Mada for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2024 Literary classification: Novel Book overview: This novel is a historical exploration of the life of the leader Abdel Karim Qasim, the most popular Iraqi Ivani leader from his birth until his revolution, which was summarized in the monarchy era with the assassination of King Faisal II in 1958. This historical novel reconstructs a forgotten history through newspapers and oral tales to the official written history, exploring the emergence of modern Iraq with the birth of the leader during World War I, when the British Empire's artillery mapped Iraq in 1914, and the history of the nation was carefully intertwined with global history. It clarified that this later led to destructive eras in Iraq: political conflicts, uncertainty, and brutality. Through this work, a post-colonial understanding is gained of what people compared and what Baghdad looked like before the royal family was killed. This novel recovers a suppressed history in Iraq, overshadowed by colonial conflict and the British maps prepared since Sykes-Picot, which later became a revised version for necessary purposes and memory exploration, and the inherent need to let the past flow freely. For this reason, the prose of this work is dense; it is a small, complex structure like a story, with each chapter a feeling about a narrative that continues within a larger story, or in a uniquely woven framework, because you do not feel embarrassed in your place within an evolving narrative of self, history, and their intertwined relationship. Ali Badrar is an Iraqi novelist with twenty-nine novels, ninety short story collections, eight philosophical books, three travel books, four plays, and three poetry collections. He has written many film scripts and articles in Arab and foreign newspapers, received numerous awards, and his works have been translated into many foreign languages.