In your book, you wrote about that part of the world called the Middle East: “This is a simple and, I think, consequently a happy part of the world."
Friday Finds: New Work in Translation by Hassan Blasim, Fadwa Soleiman
Blasim also has a forthcoming novel, God 99, that follows Hassan Owl, an Iraqi who arrives in Finland as a writer and a refugee.
How To Support a Book Drive for Syrian Refugees in Sweden
"When the need is so great, anything will help, and when the dust settles after this first book drive, perhaps we'll know more."