Saddam Hussein: The Man, The Cause and Future

Iraq, cradle of the greatest Arab civilization, is today one of the few countries being rapidly transformed from an underdeveloped backwater into a truly modern state. Endowed with the enormous riches of its land and its oil a real power, not subservient to the super-powers, is being born.

Saddam Hussein, whose name has been linked with Iraq for more than ten years, is a national leader with an international reputation associ- ated not only with industrialization but with a strong state possessing a powerful army, and an equitable social system.

The Arab Ba'th Socialist Party, which has for decades upheld the ban- ner of Arabism, has at last found in Iraq the fulfilment of its principles. Socialism Arabism, Islam, industrialization, nuclear energy, the Kurdish question, the liberation of women, relations with the great powers, with Europe, with the Third World, with Iran, with the Islamic world... on all these questions, even when they touch upon his personal life, the leader of Iraq has confided in the Lebanese writer Fuad Matar, who has devoted this book to the life and work of Saddam Hussein.

About Author

Author of many works on the Arab World and contributor to its main newspapers and periodicals (Al-Ahram, An- Nahar, Al-Mustaqbal among others), Fuad Matar is often quoted by the international press which recognizes him as one of the top specialists in the Middle East as well as of the Egyptian- Sudanese- Libyan region. His main works, The Fall of the Lebanese Empire (4vols), The Sudanese Communist Party, Egypt under Sadat, Russia in Nasser's Time, Where is Nasser in Sadat's Republic?have all been Published in Arabic.