I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand..

The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and so ….

I've been working on the margins and I was aware of this choice from the start. I buy most of what's written and produced in the Arab world and I don….

It's true that we in Iraq are now paying a heavy price as a consequence of senseless violence, but nonetheless there are many positive things happeni….

My stories were translated and had many reviews before I had an interview with any international or Arab newspaper. If the stories hadn't succeeded, ….

In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and ….

Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality..

I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue ….

The Arab world is full of corruption, in the time of the dictatorships and in the time of anarchy. This corruption is not only in politics and the ec….

One of the Baathists once told me, "If you're not careful, I'll have you put away," and those words meant death..

The Iran-Iraq war began the same year that I went to primary school, at the age of six..

Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world..

Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world. We in Iraq have not descended from another p….