Iraq + 100 : stories from a century after the invasion

Book 2016

Iraq + 100 poses a question to contemporary Iraqi writers: what might your home city look like in the year 2103 exactly 100 years after the disastrous American and British-led invasion of Iraq? How might that war reach across a century of repair and rebirth, and affect the state of the country its politics, its religion, its language, its culture and how might Iraq have finally escaped its chaos, and found its own peace, a hundred years down the...

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Arabic fiction 21st century Translations into English

Iraq Social life and conditions Fiction

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Short stories

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ISBN:

9781905583669

Description:

x, 181 pages ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Iraq plus hundred
Iraq plus one hundred

Notes:

"This book has also been supported by a grant from the British Institute for the Study of Iraq"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Foreword / Hassan Blasim
Kahramana / Anoud
The gardens of Babylon / Hassan Blassim ; translated by Jonathan Wright
The corporal / Ali Bader ; translated by Elisabeth Jacquette
The worker / Diaa Jubaili ; translated by Andrew Leber
The day by day mosque / Mortada Gzar ; translated by Katherine Halls
Baghdad syndrome / Zhraa Alhaboby ; translated by Emre Bennett
Operation Daniel / Khalid Kaki ; translated by Adam Talib
Kuszib / Hassan Abdulrazzak
The here and now prison / Jalal Hassan / translated by Max Weiss
Najufa / Ibraham al-Marashi
Afterword / Ra Page

LCCN:

2016497559

Control Number:

3241314

Other Authors:

Balāsim, Ḥasan, editor
Hemani, Noor, editor
Page, Ra, 1972- editor

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