You always have regime-friendly poets like Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, whose career basically spans the twentieth century. He's an anti-imperialist, friendly with the Communists, and somehow survives all that and is shuttling between Baghdad and Damascus depending on which way the winds are blowing with the Baathists and their competition. But he's not a regime stooge, he's independent.
Elliott CollaIf I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English.
Elliott CollaAcademic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.
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