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In memory of “Montreal writer, literary critic[,] and professor Naïm Kattan,” A”H. Kattan’s autobiographical novel, Adieu, Babylone (Farewell, Babylon), captures his experiences as a student at the Alliance Israélite Universelle school at Baghdad, as a survivor of the Farhud, and a refugee from the rise of antisemitism in Iraq. A recipient of the “Order of Canada, the Ordre du Québec[,] and the J. I. Segal Award for Literature,” Kattan was an “iconic figure in Montreal’s Sepahrdic community” as well as in Quebecois literary circles for building bridges with the French-speaking community and contributing a “unique and international perspective [that] enabled Quebecers to discover the diversity that exists within the province’s Jewish community.”   

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