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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.
'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.
True stories from the sharp edge of transatlantic deportation. In
America, foreign nationals can be deported after serving prison
sentences; some of them are British. Hassan Abdulrazzak interviewed
ex-prisoners and experts in immigration and criminal law to get
behind the political rhetoric, and to explore the extraordinary
realities of people caught up in the quagmire of immigration
detention and deportation. These are their verbatim stories of
double punishment and separation, stuck in the transatlantic tango
between Trump and May.
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.
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.
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