Author: Sanha Amin Zaki Publisher: Dar Al Hikma Edition Date: 2015 Number of Pages: 804 It is not my habit to finish biographical books quickly as I did with this one. My habit is to dwell on the minute details in such books and not move past them until after researching and investigating every piece of information, place, or person mentioned in them. But with this book, I found myself drawn to continue reading it until I finished it. The book captivates its reader not only because it chronicles the biography of a pioneering Iraqi professor and doctor, but also because it is written in a way that chronicles an important era of Iraq's history, as if it were a socio-historical study that accurately depicts the social and historical situation of Iraq and other countries in a striking manner, as if it were originally written as a socio-historical reference. I wished the book's timeline would extend to cover the period after the 1958 revolution, but unfortunately, it stops at a time when the reader is most eager to know what comes next. It stops as if it were an announcement from the author that all life has stopped in her view and there is nothing after, as if she has returned history to an ancient time in an eternal cycle. A book worth reading despite any disagreement you may find in its pages with your opinions and thoughts.