Haroun Soussan, narrator of Outcast and a Jewish convert to Islam, is a civil engineer and historian who’s just completed his life’s work, The Jews and History. The book opens with him getting an award from Saddam Hussein during the time of the Iran-Iraq war. Written in the form of an autobiography, the narrative moves in and out of the present, the recent, and more distant past, providing a unique and intimate chronicle of Iraq’s contemporary political history.
 Shimon Ballas was born in Baghdad in 1930 and immigrated to Israel in 1951.

Outcast

Literature & Fiction

Ballas, Shimon

Literary

City Lights Publishers

Tanboury finally saves enough money to buy new shoes but no matter what he does he can't get rid of his old ones.

The shoes of Tanboury

Sabra Books

The Shoes of Tanboury

Hebrew Publishing Company

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