TEHRAN – Palestinian writer Emil Habibi’s 1974 satirical fiction “The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist” has recently been published in Persian by Noon Publications.

Translated by Ehsan Musavi Khalkhali, the book is the story of a Palestinian man named Saeed who becomes a citizen of Israel to survive but in many ways he finds himself a prisoner of Israel. 

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