“Acura” publishes in Tangier “An Iraqi in Paris”

“AGORA Publishing and Distribution Area” in Tangier renewed the newsletter of the unconventional “An Iraqi in Paris” through the Iraqi author Samuel Chamoun, describing it as “his masterpiece, and some of the relaxing Arabic novels.”

Within the paper filing the paintings, the publications cited Palestinian author Antoun Shammas, who wrote: “That is the incomplete movie that Samuel Chamoun has been making plans since he left Iraq in January 1979. As an alternative of arriving in Hollywood, he leads to Paris, proceeding his lifestyles between bars.” And the metro stations and buddies, dreaming of writing a state of affairs concerning the deaf and mute deserter, his father..

However as an alternative, he writes an enthralling textual content about his formative years in that deficient town, as a boy who cherished cinema.”

Shammas endured: “An Iraqi in Paris is a written textual content… in opposition to the background of earlier biographies of Arab writers who resided in Paris for more than a few classes because the starting of the 19th century, nevertheless it exceeds these kind of texts when it comes to honesty and frankness.”

Abbas Baydoun wrote in Al-Safir newspaper: “It’s tricky to search out in Arabic a e book like Samuel Chamoun’s e book, ‘An Iraqi in Paris.’ Certainly, we can no longer discover a e book find it irresistible in Arabic in any respect.”

As for Abdo Wazen, he wrote in “Al-Hayat” newspaper: “Samuel Chamoun failed to succeed in his cinematic dream, and even his American dream, however he wrote a e book that is likely one of the examples of what has been established within the literature of biography within the trendy generation, the generation of the picture and the spectacle revolution. Individually, I don’t conceal that up to I learn this e book with ache, I learn it with excitement attributable to the clever sarcasm and absurdity that lie on the middle of the double biography, along with the individuality and smoothness that characterised the e book.”

By means of Al-Safir newspaper, Iskandar Habash mentioned: “An Iraqi in Paris is a kind of books that I actually wanted to be the creator of.”

As for the past due poet Saadi Youssef, he wrote: “Samuel Shimon is probably the most captivating a few of the interlocutors. He writes obviously, transferring between comedy and tragedy, however at all times with human intensity.” Australian novelist Alison Croggon wrote: “Samuel Shimon provides us an immediate, push-button interpretation of the sour style of on a regular basis lifestyles, infused with an incomparable spirit of irony and irony.”