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‘Karim Kadum’
This article, which appeared in the Liberal magazine in 2007, tells the extraordinary story of Karim Kadum, a soldier imprisoned by the Ba’athist for possessing Nabeel’s six line poem ‘In Camera’. Kadum escaped several years into his ten year sentence in Iraq’s most notorious military jail and fled into exile. Now in Germany he has made contact with Nabeel. Read the full story here

‘The Pen festival, New York, 2007. (Transcript) Read a transcript from the 2007 Pen festival in New York at which Jo and Nabeel spoke about the book and the wider issues facing Iraq including the role of culture in the restoration of the nation’s spirit. Nabeel also performed his poetry as part of the Imprisoned Voices Poets Gala. Get the transcript here.

‘Poetry to the people’ Brother Yasin Again was Nabeel Yasin’s broken response to the years spent in exile away from his family and his people. 1,000 copies were printed through a small London publishing house and passed throughout London’s Arab community. Yet, secretly and by word of mouth, Brother Yasin Again began a journey of its own, back into Iraq. This article, which first appeared in the Guardian newspaper in the UK, tells the remarkable story of how the poem became a symbol of resistance to Saddam Hussein’s brutally repressive regime. Read the article here

‘Saddam the romancier’. This article first appeared in the UK monthly magazine Prospect in the summer of 2004. It told the extraordinary story of the former Iraqi dictators’ literary pretensions as he wrote a series of romantic novels, published in Iraq and foisted on the people. It has since appeared in The Guardian and a number of other publications around the world. Read the article here....

Nabeel as a student in 1968. The picture was recovered from a box hidden in the house in Al Mansour after liberation