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She’s left her life in Phoenix to open a bar in cowboy-country Montana with her two best friends

East and West Asia

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well before the rise of China

Baghdad, Adieu Central Scotland She’s left her life inIraqi poet Salah Al Hamdani has lived a remarkable life. The author of some forty books in French and Arabic, he began life as a child laborer, with little or no education. As a political prisoner under Saddam Hussein, he learned to read and write Arabic; once he was released form prison, he continued to work against the regime, ultimately, at age twenty one, choosing exile in Paris. He now writes in French, but he remains a poet of exile, of memory,