Two lines from "America, America," a poem written by Iraqi poet
Saadi Youssef in Damascus on August 20, 1995, prophesied George W. Bush's plan of bringing
"maximum security" to Iraq: "Take your blueprints for model penitentiaries / and give us village homes" (trans. Khaled Mattawa,
Banipal 7, Spring 2000, republished in
Masthead 7, February 2003).
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