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.
There's no violence worse than the violence of Iraq. For the last fifty years Iraq has been living a nightmare of violence and terror. It's been a ho… - Hassan Blasim
There's no violence worse than the violence of Iraq. For the last fifty years Iraq has been living a nightmare of violence and terror. It's been a ho…
- Hassan Blasim
We used to watch executions. I mentioned that in one of my stories. There was a piece of open ground near the area where we lived and we used to play… - Hassan Blasim
We used to watch executions. I mentioned that in one of my stories. There was a piece of open ground near the area where we lived and we used to play…
How can one talk in a classical language about a child who's torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People in Iraq don't talk abou… - Hassan Blasim
How can one talk in a classical language about a child who's torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People in Iraq don't talk abou…
I'm talking about the essence of humanity. Hope is mixed into the blood of every human being, everywhere and in every time. - Hassan Blasim
I'm talking about the essence of humanity. Hope is mixed into the blood of every human being, everywhere and in every time.
I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world we… - Hassan Blasim
I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world we…
We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its… - Hassan Blasim
We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its…
It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today. - Hassan Blasim
It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.
Whenever we went out to film in the street we would end up in the police station and in the offices of some other security agency. They deliberately … - Hassan Blasim
Whenever we went out to film in the street we would end up in the police station and in the offices of some other security agency. They deliberately …
I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films. - Hassan Blasim
I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.
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