The Seven Towers of Satan: Iraq's Lovecraftian Mesopotamian Horror

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Is Iraq and the rest of the Mesopotamian region haunted? If so, then by what? And how is it connected to one of the country's oldest Kurdish communities? In the early 1900s, the french Sufi philosopher Abdul Wahid Yahya, believed that he discovered a metaphysical secret that governed the entire planet and the lives of everyone on it. Known as the Towers of Satan, could this theory explain why this part of the Middle East is paranormal?

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References and Further Reading

"Phantoms & Monsters: Mysterious Encounters" Lon Strickler
"Orient and Occidens" Abdul Wahid Yahya (Rene Guenon)
"Adventures in Arabia: Among the Bedouins, Druses, Whirling Dervisches & Yezidee Devil Worshipers" William Seabrook
"Orientalism" Edward Said

Chapters:
0:00 Intro: Abdul Wahid Yahya's Seven Towers of Satan
2:32 Three Djinn Stories in Iraq
6:40 The Yazidi Community
11:25 William Seabrook: Lovecraft's The Horror of Red Hook
15:54 The Yazidi Connection to Djinn


Music by Scott Buckley
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Thumbnail: Maxence Fleuret concept art

Voiceover by Karim Ismael
Edited by Abdullah Yahya
Executive Producers Abdullah Yahya