The Baghdad Lawyer: The Memoirs of Dr. Sabah Aris

Finding justice as a criminal lawyer in Baghdad has never been easy. Dr. Sabah Aris knows this more than most. In a career spanning fifty years, Dr. Aris has been shot in the head, forced to brandish a revolver, witnessed an act of cannibalism and kept a bear as a pet. And if acting on some of Iraq’s most notorious cases left his life at risk then working in the country, as it slipped into outright mayhem, was a different matter altogether. A memoir like no other, Dr. Aris’ experiences in Baghdad prove that sometimes justice cannot just be found; sometimes it must be fought for.