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Iraq

25 April, 2025 • Hassan Abdulrazzak

Hassan Blasim’s Sololand features Three Novellas on Iraq

Hassan Blasim’s work is not imitation. His is a voice forged in exile, and steeped in the paradoxes of displacement.

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21 March, 2025 • Deborah Williams

Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel for Our Present Dystopia

An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its significance has shifted considerably.

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7 February, 2025 • Jiyar Homer, Hannah Fox

Baxtyar Hamasur: “A Strand of Hair Shaped Like the Letter J”

Baxtyar Hamasur has dedicated his life to stories, even wearing a pair of story glasses. “I see everything as a story,” he says.

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1 November, 2024 • Malu Halasa

Editorial: Animal Truths

TMR's November issue deliberately eschews the binary and inspirational relationship between the proverbial “man and beast."

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1 November, 2024 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

Lin May Saeed

The November 2024 featured artist is the late German-Iraqi sculptor Lin May Saeed, much of whose work celebrated the animal world.

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6 September, 2024 • Ali Ramthan Hussein, Essam M. Al-Jassim

“Dear Sniper” —a short story by Ali Ramthan Hussein

Gatekeepers of Baghdad decide who lives, who dies, during 2019 protests against high unemployment, state corruption, and poor services.

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23 August, 2024 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

Beyond Rubble—Cultural Heritage and Healing After Disaster

Art, activism, archaeology, and archiving are crucial for rebuilding and healing cities by combining the past and present.

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9 August, 2024 • Zêdan Xelef

SPECIAL KURDISH ISSUE: From Kurmanji to English, an Introduction to Selim Temo

To celebrate the forthcoming publication of Selim Temo's "Nightlands," we present an introductory essay and two poems from the Pinsapo Press edition.

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5 July, 2024 • Diaa Jubaili, Chip Rossetti

“The Doll with the Purple Scarf”—flash fiction from Diaa Jubaili

Iraqi novelist Diaa Jubaili's short story, translated by Chip Rossetti, portrays dolls as unlikely victims of life under the Islamic State.

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10 May, 2024 • Malu Halasa

Demarcations of Identity: Rushdi Anwar

From sound and installation to sculpture & photography, art and a history of violence collide in Rushdi Anwar’s new show.

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3 May, 2024 • Malu Halasa, Jordan Elgrably

Why FORGETTING?

What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good? The editors inquire.

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3 May, 2024 • Nabil Salih

Regarding the Photographs of Others—An Iraqi Journey Toward Remembering

Photographs of Iraqis imply doom due to generational violence, even in happy pictures.

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3 December, 2023 • Maryam Haidari, Salar Abdoh

“The Waiting Bones”—an essay by Maryam Haidari

As this writer from Khuzestan remembers, the long Iran-Iraq war left many traces, names and ghosts in its eight-year wake.

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28 November, 2023 • Dilan Qadir

“My Father’s Last Meal”—a Kurdish Tale

In the aftermath of his father's death by shrapnel from an Iraqi shell, Dilan Qadir contends with a life intricately shaped by his absence. 

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28 November, 2023 • Matthew Broomfield

First Kurdish Sci-Fi Collection is Rooted in the Past

Matt Broomfield reviews the first anthology of Kurdish science fiction, one that envisions new possibilities for Kurdish self-determination.

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