A Rescue Mission in Baghdad

The American invasion of Iraq was not only military and political; it was cultural as well, working to undermine one of the oldest civilizations in human history. This is what the author seeks to make the subject of her novel, drawing on the famous tales of One Thousand and One Nights tales that were born in Baghdad and lived there through all this time. Because the threat reaches the characters of these tales, which form part of the world’s shared imaginative culture, the novel revolves around an international group to rescue fantasy, taking on the task of saving the characters of One Thousand and One Nights from the havoc of occupation.