Books from Iraq
29 popular iraqi books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Asia Challenge" were written by authors from Iraq.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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I Stared at the Night of the City by Bakhtiyar Ali EN
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Iraqi Kurdistan at the turn of the twenty-first century is a territory ruled by strongmen, revolutionaries, fixers, bureaucrats and the "Barons," who control everything from livestock and land to Kurdish cultural life. Defying the absolute power wielded by the Barons, a band of friends led by a poet embarks on an odyssey to find the bodies of two lovers killed unjustly by the authorities. The Barons respond by attempting to crush these would-be avengers, though their real war is waged against the imagination itself - despite the fact that imagination in its myriad forms is a prized, elusive co... continue
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Ich war Saddams Sohn : als Doppelgänger im Dienst des irakischen Diktators Hussein by Latif Yahia DE
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„Fidai? Das Wort trifft mich wie ein Hammerschlag, denn ein Fidai ist mehr als nur ein Double. Ein Fidai ist alles: Doppelgänger, Kämpfer, Leibeigener. Ein Fidai muss bereit sein, für seinen Herrn zu sterben.“ Latif Yahia erzählt die unglaubliche, aber wahre Geschichte seines Lebens: Der junge Mann aus Bagdad und Sohn einer wohlhabenden Familie wurde fünf Jahre lang gezwungen, Odai Hussein, den gefürchteten Sohn des Diktators zu ‚doubeln‘. Yahia hatte engen Kontakt zur ganzen Familie Hussein und erlebte hautnah das absurde System von Mord, Folter, Korruption und exzessiv ausgelebtem Reichtum, ... continue
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No Windmills in Basra by Diaa Jubaili EN
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A bold, imaginative collection of short stories set in Southern Iraq from prolific, award-winning novelist Diaa Jubaili. Influenced in turn by the long tradition of Arabic folktales and the magical realism of Latin America, the stories in No Windmills in Basra reflect a reality tinged by the city’s history with war. Yet the fantastic and playful peek through, offering an astounding breadth of images in only a few lines per story. In “Mubarak,” a security guard for a chicken plant discovers his own wings after a bomb explosion. In “The Taste of Death,” long-buried Iraqi and Iranian soldiers ris... continue
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Ein Flüchtling betritt die Ausländerbehörde, um ein letztes Mal seine zuständige Sachbearbeiterin aufzusuchen. Er ist wütend und hat nur einen Wunsch: dass ihm endlich jemand zuhört. Als Karim drei Jahre zuvor von der Ladefläche eines Transporters ins Freie springt, glaubt er in Frankreich zu sein. Bis dorthin hat er für seine Flucht aus dem Irak bezahlt. In Wahrheit ist er mitten in der bayerischen Provinz gelandet. – Er kämpft sich durch Formulare und Asylunterkünfte bis er plötzlich seinen Widerruf erhält und abgeschoben werden soll. Jetzt steht er wieder ganz am Anfang. Dieser ebenso abgrü... continue
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Poppies of Iraq by Brigitte Findakly, Lewis Trondheim EN
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A personal account of an Iraqi childhood - appeared on best of the year lists from Kirkus, Guardian, Vulture, Forbes, and more! Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly’s nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle class childhood touching on cultural practices, the education system, Saddam Hussein’s state control, and her family’s history as Orthodox Christians in the arab world. Poppies of Iraq is intimate and wide-ranging; the sto... continue
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The Baghdad Blog by Salam Pax EN
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This volume collects together Salam Pax's writings to tell the story of the war in Iraq from inside that besieged country. It provides a gripping perspective on the conflict and its aftermath.
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The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi EN
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Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018 This number one best-selling title in Iraq, Dubai, and the UAE is a heart-rending tale of two girls growing up in war-torn Baghdad Baghdad, 1991. The Gulf War is raging. Two girls, hiding in an air raid shelter, tell stories to keep the fear and the darkness at bay, and a deep friendship is born. But as the bombs continue to fall and friends begin to flee the country, the girls must face the fact that their lives will never be the same again. This poignant debut novel reveals just what it's like to grow up in a city that is slowly... continue
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The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon EN
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Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to... continue
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The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq by Hassan Blasim EN
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The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective, The Corpse Exhibition shows us the war as we have never seen it before. Here is a world not only of soldiers and assassins, hostages and car bombers, refugees and terrorists