Mysteries of the Tigris

By Fatima Al-Asadi, Fatimah Al-Asadi and Mohammaden Al-Iragi

Ali was driven by the recent wave of technology effect like many other Iraqi teenagers. He was unaware of the precious history of his country and the vast number of stories occurred there until he went in his magical trip offered by the Tigris to discover places he had never seen before.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496952806

Fatima Al-Asadi

Fatimah is studying her PhD in English Education. She has taught linguistics for four years at the University of Baghdad. She inherited her love for writing from her father who used to write poetry. Being an Iraqi women, she feels that writers should devote their talent to reach out to young minds throughout creating a new world of literary discoveries to all sides of community and heritage treasures. “Mysteries of the Tigris” is the first book in a series of fiction that she tries to revive the forgotten history among the young generations.

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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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Published by AuthorHouse  11/10/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4969-5281-3 (sc)

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Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

End Notes

Chapter One

You are grounded for a week! the mother cried desperately.

Really?! Ali thought trying to figure out what could be implied by the word ‘grounded’.

For kids in his society ‘grounded’ meant nothing. Parents could try to hide their video games, laptops, or even their cell phones but still they had several other things which made it impossible to control teenagers’ ambitions to run away from studying.

Sometimes Ali felt sorry for himself and his friends. Deep inside he liked to study but he would feel bored whenever he opens a textbook. It had been eight weeks since the beginning of the school year and he did not know anything about the content of his history textbook. This morning, his mother met his history teacher at the local market and the teacher told Ali’s mother that he failed the first monthly exam. He tried to explain that he does not like history but his mother got furious and hit him with her slipper. Her words flew with the slipper echoing in the whole house:

Your family is one result of that history. If you can live ignoring that history I cannot hope that you’ll be of any good to this family. Get out.

Ali spent the whole afternoon wondering near the old mosque which stands on the side of the Tigris two streets away from his house. He sat in the shade of the wall of the mosque thinking of the last sentence of his mother. His eyes were fixed on the little waves hitting the sands near the bank. He tried to follow the stream of the water and wondered