#Mortada Gzar

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Forthcoming October 2024: Fiction from Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, and More

This list is incomplete and limited to what we’ve been told about or discovered; if your book should be here, please let us know in the comments or at info@arablit.org. No One Knows Their Blood Type, by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Hazem Jamjoum (Cleveland State University Poetry Center: October 1, 2024) From the publisher: No One Knows Their Blood Type is a novel of identity, belonging,…

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The River Knows My Name

By Mortada Gzar.

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Catch Up Game

Thanks @asablehart for tagging me in this! Trying to be better about doing tag games...

Rules: tag people you want to get to know better/catch up with!

Favorite Colour: blue or really really light, pastel pinks

Currently Reading: Know My Name by Chanel Miller. Really good, but also pretty triggering, so it's been a slow read. I've also been reading I'm In Seattle, Where Are You? by Mortada Gzar.

Last Song: uhhhhhcording to Spotify, Outrage! Is Now by Death from Above 1979

Last Movie: I'm pretty sure it was Sorry to Bother You.... really weird movie.

Last Series: TV series??? I've been watching Atlanta lately. Book series? Uhhh the Spice and Wolf light novels

Sweet, Spicy, or Savory: Savory or sweet

Craving: A fucking break for once, dude

Tea or Coffee: really depends on my mood, cause it's a pretty even split.

Currently Working on: Outlining/plotting Little Vicious Minds, rewriting Lilium, and drafting Those Who Emerge from Ashes. And some short stories.

Tagging...: @drippingmoon @mxxnwishes @the-writing-owl @cheerfulmelancholies

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IRAQ + 100, edited by Hassan Blasim

In what turns out to be a cultural lesson in the literary art form, IRAQ + 100 from Tor Books is an insightful look at a future that only those who live or had lived in the turmoil laidened country. Billed as “The first anthology of science fiction to have emerge from Iraq,” readers will be both entertained by the vast collection of ideas and educated by what these visionaries presume the future…

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Mortada Gzar’s 'My Beautiful Sect': Visions of a Deformed Iraqi Reality

Mortada Gzar’s ‘My Beautiful Sect’: Visions of a Deformed Iraqi Reality

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Summer Reads: 12 Arab Authors Recommend

By Essayed Taha The twelve authors from nine countries who recommended books for our list of 2023 summer reads had different ideas about what you need in a summer book. While some went short, others went long. (Some went both.) Some suggested a light, fast-paced book to relax with on the beach while others looked to reads for a balcony. Some recommended biting humor while others suggested…

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Darwish and Abu-Zeid, Gzar and Hutchins Longlisted for 2022 PEN Awards

Darwish and Abu-Zeid, Gzar and Hutchins Longlisted for 2022 PEN Awards

Yesterday, PEN America announced the longlists for their 2022 literary awards, including the two categories for work in translation. Each had one work translated from Arabic. In the category for “Poetry in Translation,” Najwa Darwish‘s Exhausted on the Cross, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, was one of ten poetry collections longlisted by judges Caro Carter, Michael Favala Goldman, and…

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Black Basrans: Mortada Gzar's 'Broom of Paradise'

Black Basrans: Mortada Gzar’s ‘Broom of Paradise’

This week, our series on Iraq’s diverse literary scene — curated by Hend Saeed — focuses on Mortada Gzar’s 2009 novel Broom of Paradise:  By Hend Saeed Historically, Black Iraqis have lived mainly in Basra and its surrounding areas. Many were originally descended from East African slaves who were kidnapped from Zanzibar and Tanzania (then called Zanj), while others are descended from…