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For Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky for her courageous

stand against the invasion of Iraq — MS

First published in 2013 by

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Original Arabic copyright © Mahmoud Saeed, 1970, 2013

English translation copyright © Kay Heikkinen, 2013

Cover image copyright © Iulia Ioana Huiduc | Dreamstime.com

Librar y of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sa'id, Mahmud, 1938-

[Zanqah Bin Barakah. English]

Ben Barka Lane / by Mahmoud Saeed ; translated by Kay Heikkinen.

pages cm

"Ben Baraka Lane was written in 1970 and immediately banned in Iraq. It was published in Cairo in 1987 and by Dar al-Caramel in Amman, Jordan in 1993. After it won the Ministry of Information Award in 1994, it was reissued by Dar al-Carmel, Jordan in 1995, and was later published by the House of Arts in Beirut, Lebanon in 1997. This is the first English language translation."--Title page verso. ISBN 978-1-56656-926-2

I. Heikkinen, Kay. II. Title. PJ7862.A5236Z2613 2013

892.7'36--dc23 2013000043

Printed and bound in the United States of America

translator’s acknowledgements:

I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to Farouk Mustafa and to Kitty Burns Florey, for their support, their skillful critiques, and their shrewd observations.

All the characters in this work are fictional.