{"title":"Saleem Haddad","description":"Saleem Haddad was born in Kuwait City in 1983 to a Lebanese-Palestinian father and an Iraqi-German mother, and educated in Jordan, Canada, and the United Kingdom. He has worked as an aid worker with Doctors Without Borders in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, and currently lives in London, where he advises on inclusion of refugees, women, and young people in the transition and peace processes of the Arab Spring.","products":[{"product_id":"floodlines-paperback","title":"Floodlines - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSet between London and Baghdad, Saleem Haddad's brilliant second novel is a sweeping, multigenerational tale of art, exile, memory, and the enduring legacies of war. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2014, three long estranged Iraqi-British sisters are pulled back into each other's orbit by the rediscovery of their late father's long-lost paintings. Beautiful, elusive Zainab; embittered, practical Mediha; and headstrong, queer Ishtar each lay claim to their father's legacy--an artistic and personal inheritance entwined with betrayal, exile, and a homeland they no longer recognize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the sisters fight to preserve, erase, or repurpose the past, Zainab's estranged son Nizar, a war correspondent haunted by trauma and heartbreak, returns to the family fold. With the reemergence of buried memories comes a reckoning, and the family is forced to confront the personal and political betrayals that tore them apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning continents and decades--from 1950s Baghdad to contemporary London, from the Tigris River to Yemeni refugee camps--\u003cem\u003eFloodlines\u003c\/em\u003e is at once an intimate family drama and, in its scope, a modern epic. It is a rare novel that bridges the historic and the immediate and a heartfelt meditation on what it means to belong, to create, to endure. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102247424223,"sku":"9798889661658","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/X0K9apNx6x9798889661658.webp?v=1781079214"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/saleem-haddad.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}