‘Hara Hotel’: On Centering the Western Narrator and Stories About Syrian Refugees

"It reminds us of the colonial narratives advancing how the colonized people are in desperate need of saving."

Haitham Hussein’s Letter to Agatha Christie: ‘Are You Happy Here?’

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."

Blasim also has a forthcoming novel, God 99, that follows Hassan Owl, an Iraqi who arrives in Finland as a writer and a refugee.

"When the need is so great, anything will help, and when the dust settles after this first book drive, perhaps we'll know more."