![]() ![]() He felt that a novel was better capable of communicating characters’ life circumstances and emotions than journalistic reporting. ![]() ![]() This led him to write Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013). While working as a journalist in Iraq, including during the period of the Iraqi Civil War (2006-2008), he became committed to relating the horrors of this period to the public. Throughout his life, he has found various ways to express this passion for storytelling: in addition to working as a screenwriter and documentary film maker, he is the author of a volume of poetry and three novels. Despite these difficult circumstances, he developed an intense passion for literature. Due to the Iraqi state’s censorship of many books, along with international sanctions on the country from 1990 to 2003, Saadawi had access to very few books while growing up. Ahmed Saadawi grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, during a time when books were scarce. ![]()
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