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Baghdad: The City in Verse captures the essence of life lived in one of the world's enduring metropolises. This unusual anthology offers original translations of 170 Arabic poems from Bedouin, Muslim, Christian, Kurdish, and Jewish poets--most for the first time in English--from Baghdad's founding in the eighth century to the present day.

Arabic poetry --- Arabic literature --- Baghdad (Iraq) --- Bagdad (Iraq) --- Bagddad (Iraq) --- Beghdad (Iraq) --- بغداد (Iraq) --- In literature. --- Poésie arabe --- Bagdad (Irak) --- In literature --- Dans la littérature

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Irak --- Photographie de reportages --- Reportagefotografie --- fotografie --- twintigste eeuw --- documentaire --- documentaire fotografie --- reportage --- reportagefotografie --- oorlogsfotografie --- oorlog --- Golfoorlog --- Stevens Bruno --- België --- Bagdad --- 77.071 STEVENS --- 77.044 --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Baghdad (Iraq) --- Bagdad (Iraq) --- Bagddad (Iraq) --- Beghdad (Iraq) --- بغداد (Iraq) --- History

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Once upon a time, Baghdad was home to a flourishing Jewish community. More than a third of the city's people were Jews, and Jewish customs and holidays helped set the pattern of Baghdad's cultural and commercial life. On the city's streets and in the bazaars, Jews, Muslims, and Christians—all native-born Iraqis—intermingled, speaking virtually the same colloquial Arabic and sharing a common sense of national identity. And then, almost overnight it seemed, the state of Israel was born, and lines were drawn between Jews and Arabs. Over the next couple of years, nearly the entire Jewish population of Baghdad fled their Iraqi homeland, never to return. In this beautifully written memoir, Nissim Rejwan recalls the lost Jewish community of Baghdad, in which he was a child and young man from the 1920s through 1951. He paints a minutely detailed picture of growing up in a barely middle-class family, dealing with a motley assortment of neighbors and landlords, struggling through the local schools, and finally discovering the pleasures of self-education and sexual awakening. Rejwan intertwines his personal story with the story of the cultural renaissance that was flowering in Baghdad during the years of his young manhood, describing how his work as a bookshop manager and a staff writer for the Iraq Times brought him friendships with many of the country's leading intellectual and literary figures. He rounds off his story by remembering how the political and cultural upheavals that accompanied the founding of Israel, as well as broad hints sent back by the first arrivals in the new state, left him with a deep ambivalence as he bid a last farewell to a homeland that had become hostile to its native Jews.

Jews --- Juifs --- Rejwan, Nissim. --- Baghdad (Iraq) --- Bagdad (Irak) --- Ethnic relations --- Relations interethniques --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions --- رجوان، نسيم --- Bagdad (Iraq) --- Bagddad (Iraq) --- Beghdad (Iraq) --- بغداد (Iraq) --- Ethnic relations.

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French literature (outside France) --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Guerre en Irak, 2003-2011 --- Horem, Elisabeth, --- Travel --- Baghdad (Iraq) --- Bagdad (Irak) --- Social life and customs. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Iraq War, 2003 --- -Authors, French --- Authors, French --- Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, 2003-2011 --- Dawn, Operation New, 2010-2011 --- Gulf War II, 2003-2011 --- Iraqi Freedom, Operation, 2003-2010 --- New Dawn, Operation, 2010-2011 --- Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2010 --- Operation New Dawn, 2010-2011 --- Operation Telic, 2003-2011 --- Persian Gulf War, 2003-2011 --- Telic, Operation, 2003-2011 --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- French authors --- Bagdad (Iraq) --- Bagddad (Iraq) --- Beghdad (Iraq) --- بغداد (Iraq) --- Authors, French - 20th century - Travel - Iraq - Baghdad. --- Authors, French - 21st century - Travel - Iraq - Baghdad.