The quiet Euphrates depicts the epic tragedies of the Iraqis and their savagely brutalized country.The major protagonist. Reema Al-Fazaa, the wealthiest, most beautiful, and influential woman in the Middle East, finds herself not only a prisoner of her opulent palace on the Euphrates, built of the blood money amassed by her tyrannical father, Sheikh Jessas AL- Fazaa, but also a victim of her own heritage, a stoic code of tribal honor, and the rigid, unforgiving social and religious environment in which she becomes a woman. The Quiet Euphrates traces the harsh circumstances which first bring Reema to wealth and power, and eventually lead to her demise and downfall from grace, and the loss of her most precious virtues, her honor for which she killed three times.

From a princess to a prostitude, the novel takes the reader to the Arabic- Islamic way of life and discusses honor- Killing-, arranged marriages, vengeance, and other calamities of the Arab society. While Reema is a unique lady in the history of the Middle East, her horrific fate is emblematic of the same violence that has destroyed Irqa. The Quiet Euphrates is as much a story about Iraq and the Iraqis as it is about Reema AL- Fazaa, exposing the tragedies and triumphs that dominated Iraqi politics, society, and above all tradition.