Baghdad: The City in Verse
A vigorous yet densely complex poetic tradition has traced popular memories of [Baghdad's] tumultuous history, and a small portion of that literature can be found inBaghdad: The City in Verse, a sleek and informative volume edited by Reuven Snir, a professor of Arabic literature and dean of humanities at the University of Haifa […] [Snir provides] a deeply affecting compilation to illuminate, for English readers, the Iraqi capital's rich and enduring legacy. [...] In doing so, he offers a corrective to warped perceptions of Baghdad and a reasoned hope for a better future inspired by its resplendent past. —Joseph Braude