The Fortified Castle (Arabic: القلعة الحصينة Al-Qala-ah Al-Hasinah) is Saddam Hussein's third of four novels.
It concerns the delayed wedding of the Iraqi hero, who fought in the war against Iran, to a Kurdish girl.
There are three characters: the two brothers Sabah and Mahmud, from rural area from the west bank of the Tigris River from a farming family coming, and a young woman Shatrin from Suleimaniya.
The power of the "fortified castle" (a reference to Iraq) lies in its unity; despite proposals to divide the property, the hero's mother refuses.
She also states that it cannot be purchased with money: "Only those who give it their blood and defend it are its rightful owners.