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Outcast by Ballas, Shimon, 1930- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Haroun Soussan, narrator of <i>Outcast</i> and a Jewish convert to Islam, is a civil engineer and historian who’s just completed his life’s work, <i>The Jews and History.</i> 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.</p> <p><b>Shimon Ballas</b> was born in Baghdad in 1930 and immigrated to Israel in 1951.</p>
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ballas, Shimon, 1930-
- Publisher
- City Lights, c2007.
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780872864818
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.56 / 5 (25 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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