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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 line? As
well as being an exercise in escaping the politics of the present,
this anthology is also an opportunity for a hotbed of contemporary
Arabic writers to offer its own spin on science fiction and
fantasy.
A Palestinian actor learns there's more to English girls than pure
sex appeal. A Pakistani-born terror suspect figures out what's
wrong with his first novel. A British youth suspects all is not
what it seems with his object of desire. A New Yorker asks his
girlfriend for a sexual favour at the worst possible time. Love,
Bombs & Apples is the comic tale of four men, each from
different parts of the globe, all experiencing a moment of
revelation.
It's January 28th 2011 and Egypt stands on the brink. For Layla and
Hisham, a young couple living in downtown Cairo, a dictatorial and
corrupt government is only one of their problems. As the world
shifts, cataclysmically, around them, some long hidden secrets
threaten to emerge and tear them apart. Based on extensive
interviews in Cairo with revolutionaries and soldiers, journalists
and cab drivers, this new drama depicts both a revolution in
progress and the society from which it sprang.
'In Iraq, a wedding is not a wedding unless shots get fired. It's
like in England where a wedding is not a wedding unless someone
pukes or tries to fuck one of the brides' maids. That's just the
way it goes.'Against a backdrop of London and war-torn Baghdad,
three friends grapple with their sexual, cultural and political
identity. This is a surprising first play from Iraqi writer Hassan
Abdulrazzak.
Based on Ahmed Tobasi's personal coming of age story, And Here I Am
is an epic voyage of identity and self-discovery. Combining fact
and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, spanning both the first
Palestinian intifada and the second, we follow the protagonist
through his transformation from resistance fighter to artist, his
journey as a refugee from the West Bank to Norway and then back
again. In a series of tragicomic episodes vividly brought to life
with music, dance and animation, we journey through this personal
and political tale of occupation and resistance, fear and heroism,
a life of self-pursuit and loyalty that transports us to the heart
of the hardships, struggles and contradictions of a young man
growing up under occupation and his pursuit for the true meaning of
freedom.
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