Mahmoud Saeed

Mahmoud Saeed (; 1939 – 28 January 2025) was an Iraqi-born American novelist.

Born in Mosul, Saeed wrote more than 20 novels and short story collections, and hundreds of articles. He started writing short stories at an early age. Saeed wrote an award-winning short story in the Newspaper "Fata Al-Iraq, Newspaper" in 1956. He published a collection of short stories, ''Port Saeed and other stories'', in 1957. In 1963, the government after 1963 coup destroyed his two novel manuscripts one under review, "The Old Case" and "The Strike".

Government censorship prevented his novel ''Rhythm and Obsession'' from being published in 1968, and banned his novel ''Rue Ben Barka'', in 1970. ''Rue Ben Barka'' was published fifteen years later in Egypt 1985, Jordan 1992/1993, and Beirut in 1997. Authorities banned the publication of any book written by the author from 1963 to 2008. His most important novels after ''Ben Barka Lane'' are ''The Girls of Jacob'', ''The World Through the Angel's Eyes'', ''I am the One Who Saw'', and ''Trilogy of Chicago''. Provided by Wikipedia