“Nobody knows where the red line is any more.”
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Iraq
France’s ‘Prix de la Littérature Arabe’ to Translation of Inaam Kachachi’s ‘Tashaari’
The jury also gave a 5,000€ special mention to Reda Dalil’s 2016 novel “Best-seller.”
Short-story Collection by Hassan Blasim on Finalist’s List for Finnish Prize
“The winner will be take home a ‘golden’ library card and €1,000.”
One Sami Michael Novel Delisted from Israel’s HS Reading List, Another Banned
Both “A Trumpet in the Wadi” and “Refuge” are available in English translation.
On the 90th Birthday of Sami Michael, an Iraqi-Jewish Writer in Israel
“In 1948, due to his political activity, the Iraqi Court issued a warrant for Sami’s arrest, at which point his father had him smuggled to Iran. In 1949, Sami left Iran for Israel.”
‘Gilgamesh’s Snake and Other Poems’
Where does “star-shaken” come from, and why has the sea become open?
Why Iraqi Novelist Ali Bader Shifted Women’s Liberation to the Center of His Work
His interest shifted from the mechanisms of political reform to a social revolution. Women’s liberation, he said, “is at the heart” of this.
Digital Hats, Analog Ambitions: Staging Hassan Blasim
“The open war that ‘The Digital Hats Game’ hackers are fighting is both one of endless and borderless possibilities and one where they also expose themselves to uninvited invasions.”
‘Night and the Desert Know Me’: Visual Artists Respond to Iraqi Poems
One of the most discomfiting images in the “Night and the Desert Know Me” installation at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery in Washington, D.C., is Michael Platt’s “Just Outside My Window #1.”
Fantastically Successful Kickstarter for an Arts Library in Baghdad
The Kickstarter campaign “One Hundred Sixty-Eight Hours and One Second,” launched by Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal to raise money for the library at the University of Baghdad’s College of Fine Arts, has fourteen days remaining. But it already has exceeded its modest $9,000 goal by more than $28,000.
Hassan Blasim: ‘A Refugee in the Paradise that is Europe’
You escape death.
They hit you on the border.
They insult you in the racist newspapers.
They analyse your child’s dead body on television.
The Yazidis: Between Lalish Festivity and ISIS Captivity
“As Victor Hugo wrote in his poem ‘L’enfant,’ ‘Les Turcs ont passé là.’ One day I will be able to say regarding the part of Iraq occupied by the Islamic State, ‘ISIS passed by here.’
