Waters under Baghdad
(Book)

Faisal, a young Iraqi man from Baghdad, loses his family and home and flees his country in the aftermath of war. While stranded at the Belarus-Poland border during the infamous refugee crisis of 2019 along with thousands of other migrants, he meets Gulistan, an Iraqi woman who reminds him of his mother and who lost family members of her own. So begins a multigenerational epic stretching back a hundred years of Iraq’s modern history, all viewed through the eyes of a single family, from the birth of a new Iraq amid the ashes of the Ottoman Empire to the collapse following the American invasion and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.