Looking Back From Iraq

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. Show Notes: An excerpt from Gaith Abdul-ahad’s memoir A Stranger In Your Own City ran recently in the Guardian Shalash The Iraqi, trans. Luke Leafgren, is a collection of blog posts written in 2005-2006 An excerpt from Faleeha Hassan’s memoir War and Me, tans. William Hutchins ran on Arablit.org. The Book of Trivialities, by Majed Mujid, trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid The 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. You can make a donation to support BULAQ's 2023 season here: https://donorbox.org/support-bulaq Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.