When Darkness Falls

Set on a Baghdad university campus in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, When Darkness Falls unfolds across a single spring semester in the life of Dr. Nouman Mahmood, an aging professor who dreams of only one thing: retirement. Once a young idealist drawn to movements promising social justice and democracy, Nouman now navigates a world governed by surveillance, suspicion, and fear. His application for early retirement is a quiet act of desperation, an attempt to preserve his dignity even ...