The aim of the present research was to analyse political oppression and brutality during Saddam Hussein regime’s rule in Iraq based on fictions by selected Iraqi writers. The main objective of this research is to show how the regime abused its power to subjugate the Iraqi population as depicted in the contemporary Iraqi novels. The selected novels for analysis were An Iraqi in Paris, Dates on My Fingers, Ijaam, Saddam City, The Scattered Crumbs, and The Corpse Washer. Using Michel Foucault’s concepts of sovereign power, surveillance, and resistance as the theoretical framework, the study shows how the Baath Party’s stranglehold on power adversely affected the lives of Iraqis. The selected novels highlighted oppression, inequality, and restrictions on freedom during the regime’s rule. They were also emblematic of the Baath Party and its tyrannical domination of Iraqi society. Scattered Crumbs and The Corpse Washer describe the effect of war on Iraqis. The texts also i.....

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