FRANKENSTEIN IN BAGHDAD
Ahmed Saadawi
Set after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures the ordinary yet not so ordinary life in rapidly-changing Baghdad. The novel illustrates the complexity of life for a citizen in Iraq, highlights the atrocities of war and sectarianism, and questions our sense of bias and morality. Frankenstein in Baghdad is a novel relevant for everyone irrespective of their nationality.
Zahraa Al-Dawood
WRITING CENTER CONTEST
SPRING 2021
PROMPTS:
"A Strange Message on the Wall"
&
"Letters to my Past, Present, and Future Self"
First Place Winner-Prompt 1
"Tricking Destiny"
by
Sharon Aruparayil
Second Place Winner-Prompt 2
"A Little Present From Future" by
Afra Alfalahi
THE INKBLOT JOURNAL
Published by the AUS Writing Center