Elizabeth Warnock Fernea is the author of "Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village." The late great French Arabist Jacques Berque was fond of saying that more poets lived in the city ...
Born in 1934 in Basra, Iraq, Youssef has recently settled in London after a peripatetic adult existence. These poems drawn from his 30 books are organized by date and place of composition: Baghdad ...