A biography Robert Fisk did not write

Posted by Daniel Stout on Sun 3 Feb 2008 at 1:16 PM

The Independent of the U.K. has a great article written by author Robert Fisk about a biography he did not write. The curious thing about the biography is that it has his name on it. It’s a biography of Saddam Hussein written in Arabic and published in Cairo. It was officially approved by the state censors. Fisk heard about the book when an Egyptian friend sent the book to him in Lebanon. The article tells of his attempt to track down the author of the book. He criss-crosses Cairo getting closer and closer, but the forger remains elusive. He follows leads, but eventually finds a cold trail. The forger has a common Egyptian name, and his exact location is uncertain. So Fisk doesn’t find the man who actually wrote the biography of Saddam Hussein, but his telling of the tale is interesting and compelling in and of itself.

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