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Podcast: BULAQ | بولاق
Episode: Looking Back From Iraq
Description: Twenty years after the disastrous and mendacious US invasion of Iraq, we take a look at writing from Iraq: memoirs, poems and blog posts. Shalash the Iraqi is a collection of such posts – a satirical, surreal, and affecting panorama in life in a Shia suburb of Baghdad in the early years of the occupation. Show Notes:An excerpt from Gaith Abdul-ahad’s memoir A Stranger In Your Own City ran recently in the GuardianShalash The Iraqi, trans. Luke Leafgren, is a collection of blog posts written in 2005-2006 An excerpt from F...