29 May 2012 03:01:44
Raghad Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator's eldest daughter, lives in exile in Jordan. Her lawyer, Haitham Nabil al-Harsh, told the Dubai-based Al Arabiya: "These are the only real memoirs Saddam Hussein wrote by hand and they will be released as soon as we find a publishing house." He did not reveal how long Hussein spent writing the memoirs, or what they would contain.
Saddam Hussein is also the purported author of four novels: Get Out, You Damned One; Walled Fortress; Men and the City; and Zabiba and the King, described as "an allegorical love story between a mighty king (Saddam) and a simple yet beautiful commoner named Zabiba (the Iraqi people), [raped by] a cruel and unloving husband (the United States)" in an English translation on Amazon. It is not known whether he wrote the books himself or if they were penned by a ghostwriter.
Al Arabiya reported that Raghad Saddam Hussein had previously objected to a book released in 2009 by her father's lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaimi, called Saddam Hussein: From an American Cell – This Is What Happened.
The book was based on diaries and conversations, and included poems and letters by the former dictator, who was executed for crimes against humanity in 2006.
