Articles

Abdallah, Sayyid. “The Strategy of Absence in the Poetry of Saadi Youssef.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 21 (2001).
http://www.jstor.org/journals/11108673.html

Obank, Margaret. “Feature on Sa’adi Youssef.” Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature 7 [2000]: 3-9.
http://www.banipal.co.uk/

Simawe, Saadi A. “The Politics and the Poetics of Sa’di Yusuf: the use of the vernacular.” Arab Studies Quarterly 19.4 [1997]: 173-187.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2501/is_n4_v19/ai_20576627

Weidner, Stefan. “Sa’adi Youssef’s Place in Modern Arabic Poetry: The Art of the Stork.” Banipa: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature 7 [2000]: 9.
http://www.banipal.co.uk/

Books

Ali, Tariq. Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq. New York: Norton, 2003. Ch.2 [title?]: [p. #s?]

Mattawa, Khaled. "Introduction." Saaid Youssef. Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems. Trans. Khaled Mattawa. St. Paul: Graywolf , 2002.

Reviews

Abla, Farida. “Going Home: Review of Without an Alphabet, Without a Face.” Perihelion 7 [2001].
http://www.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/abla.htm

Broderick, Rich. “Publish or Perish.” Rev. of Unfortunately, It Was Paradise by Mahmoud Darwish and Without an Alphabet, Without a Face by Saadi Youssef. Fifth Column Mag October 9, 2003.
http://www.fifthcolumnmag.com/1003/publish.html

Ghazoul, Ferial J. “Spiral of Iraqi Memory.” Al-Ahram Weekly 634 [April 17, 2003].
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/634/bsc17.htm

Laughtland, Amanda. Rev. of Without an Alphabet, Without a Face by Saadi Youssef. The Progressive 67.3 [March 2003]: 44.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_3_67/ai_99818457

Maguire, Sarah. “The Ravages of War.” Rev. of Iraqi Poetry Today, edited by Saadi Simawe. Al-Ahram Weekly 630 [Mar. 20, 2003].
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/630/bo1.htm