Memories of Bet Nahrain

This volume of short stories by Youel A Baaba deals with Assyrians from their expulsion from Urmia to their temporary settlement in a Baghdad ghetto called Gailani camp. The stories examine a variety of characteristics of human behavior and the outside pressures on a homeless people in their struggle to survive. The stories address jealousy, betrayal, false pride, divorce, corrupt church prelates, evil and goodness. A special essay deals with the lives of Assyrians in the Gailani camp in the middle of the last century. The contents of this book are entirely in the Assyrian language.