Layla the sick in Iraq, by Zaki Mubarak

Layla, the sick woman in Iraq. A book that appears to praise the beauty of the Iraqi Layla, with her aristocratic and bewildered beauty, wrapped in the Iraqi abaya, and immersed in love with a handsome Egyptian young man she met by chance during her visit to Cairo, to attend the Iraqi industrial exhibition during the government of Abdulmohsen Al-Sadoun. While the main goal of the book is an attempt to approach studying the Iraqi personality, and analyzing the factors of her emotional, mental, social, and political crises. For this reason, some critics describe the book "Layla, the Sick Woman in Iraq" as more like a psychological study, wrapped in a beautiful and entertaining narrative style. Zakki Mubarak in this book wants to know the secret of Layla's seclusion, and to help her with her psychological problem, to the extent that he impersonates the role of a doctor. Therefore, the reader will find himself facing a writer impersonating a psychiatrist, and with a psychiatrist writing with the pen of a poet and writer. Mubarak tells us that he fell into this illusion when he knocked on Layla's house in Al-Abbas bin Al-Ahnaf Street. The poet who loved his wife madly. Suddenly, he sees in the moments of Layla’s appearance to him in her elegant salon, and wondered why he is not the doctor who cures his patient, who is lovesick with an Egyptian young man. Number of pages: 584