The secret of the seeing, Amer Al-Kubaisi

I love the year 222 AH, they laid my foundations in the year 220, my master Al-Mu'tasim entered me in 221, on that day I became a city truly. They say that my sister Baghdad was built circular west of the Tigris River, but my shape is different; I was built elongated, and I took a different side of the Tigris River; Baghdad is west of it and I am east, my father and her father is the Tigris River, and although he embraces us from two different sides. I will tell you how I was born, and how she grew up.. my story and some of her story, my femininity and her femininity, my battles and her battles, I may not be again, that is my fate to be once only. Just as Al-Mu'tasim was — exactly — once only. 397 pages, medium cut, issued 1436 (2015 AD)