Fuad Al-Takarli
Fouad al-Tikerly ( ar, فؤاد التكرلي; August 22, 1927 – February 11, 2008) was a prominent Iraqi novelist and writer, best known for his groundbreaking novel ''al-Rajea al-Baeed'', translated into English as ''The Long Way Back''. Al-Tikerly was one of the last surviving members of a group of well known Iraqi novelists from the 1970s. Biography Al-Tikerly was born in Baghdad in 1927. At school he became friends with Abdul-Wahab al-Bayati. He graduated from the University of Baghdad's law school in 1949. Employed at the Ministry of Justice of Iraq for 35 years, he became a judge in 1956 before later becoming head judge of the city of Baghdad's Court of Appeals. While in this position he acquired a notable reputation for fairness. Al-Tikerly moved to Paris in 1964 in order to pursue postgraduate legal studies; he later returned to France briefly during the 1980s. He retired from the law in 1983 in order to devote more time to writing novels. ''al-Rajea al-Baeed'' (''Th ...
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The Long Way Back
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ...
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