Twenty years after the disastrous and mendacious US invasion of Iraq, we take a look at writing from Iraq: memoirs, poems and blog posts. Shalash the Iraqi is a collection of such posts – a satirical, surreal, and affecting panorama in life in a Shia suburb of Baghdad in the early years of the occupation.
\r\nShow Notes:
\r\nAn excerpt from Gaith Abdul-ahad’s memoir A Stranger In Your Own City ran recently in the Guardian
\r\nShalash The Iraqi, trans. Luke Leafgren, is a collection of blog posts written in 2005-2006
\r\nAn excerpt from Faleeha Hassan’s memoir War and Me, tans. William Hutchins ran on Arablit.org.
\r\nThe Book of Trivialities, by Majed Mujid, trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid
\r\nThe only English-language collection of Sargon Boulous’ self-translated poetry is Knife Sharpener from Banipal Books. You can find a list of his poems available online here.
\r\nYou can make a donation to support BULAQ's 2023 season here: https://donorbox.org/support-bulaq
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