My Father’s Rifle 15th February 2020
My Father’s Rifle is a beautiful narrative about the life of boy named Azad and his coming-of-age in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s. Azad is born into a vibrant village culture, to a family that is proud of...
Blogs in February 2020
Dreaming of Baghdad 15th February 2020
“Deftly sketched, simple and poetic, Dreaming of Baghdad drags politics down from the realm of the abstract into the mud, fear, and loneliness of personal experience and psychological ruin that is life under dictatorship. This is a landscape of...
God In Pink 15th February 2020
In war-torn Iraq in 2003, a young gay Muslim struggles to find a balance between his sexuality, religion and culture. Hasan Namir’s GOD IN PINK is a revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in...
Sweet Dates in Basra 15th February 2020
“In this story of love and search for identity, Jessica Jiji succeeds fully in capturing passions, depth of feeling, and strong relationships beyond ethnic and religious differences.”–Naim Kattan, author of Farewell Babylon Jessica Jiji’s Sweet Dates in Basra is...
The President’s Gardens 15th February 2020
“A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting”. Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent Foreign...
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