Odysseus of Baghdad

"e;My name is Saad, Saad, which in Arabic means 'hope, hope,' and in English, 'sorrow, sorrow.'"e;Saad longed to leave Baghdad, to escape the chaos that had engulfed it, to reach Europe, freedom, a future. How could he leave his country with no money? How, like Odysseus, did he face the storms and survive drowning, escape the opium smugglers, ignore the songs of courtesans who had grown hard-hea...