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Hassan Blasim


Iraq + 100: Stories From a Century After the Invasion

Iraq + 100: Stories From a Century After the Invasion

Futures Past: Book 1

Hassan Blasim

Iraq + 100 poses a question to ten Iraqi writers: what might your country look like in the year 2103 -- a century after the disastrous American- and British-led invasion, and 87 years down the line from its current, nightmarish battle for survival? How might the effects of that one intervention reach across a century of repercussions, and shape the lives of ordinary Iraqi citizens, or influence its economy, culture, or politics? Might Iraq have finally escaped the cycle of invasion and violence triggered by 2003 and, if so, what would a new, free Iraq look like?

Covering a range of approaches -- from science fiction, to allegory, to magic realism -- these stories use the blank canvas of the future to explore the nation's hopes and fears in equal measure. Along the way a new aesthetic for the 'Iraqi fantastical' begins to emerge: thus we meet time-travelling angels, technophobic dictators, talking statues, macabre museum-worlds, even hovering tiger-droids, and all the time buoyed by a dark, inventive humour that, in itself, offers hope.

Contents:

  • Foreword (Iraq + 100) - essay by Hassan Blasim
  • Kahramana - short story by Anoud
  • The Gardens of Babylon - short story by Hassan Blasim
  • The Corporal - novelette by Ali Bader
  • The Worker - short story by Diaa Jubaili
  • The Day by Day Mosque - short story by Mortada Gzar
  • Baghdad Syndrome - short story by Zhraa Alhaboby
  • Operation Daniel - short story by Khalid Kaki
  • Kuszib - (2015) - novelette by Hassan Abdulrazzak
  • The Here and Now Prison - short story by Jalal Hasan
  • Najufa - short story by Ibrahim Al-Marashi
  • Afterword (Iraq + 100) - essay by Ra Page

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