Iraqi author Hassan Blasim launches his debut short story collection, The Madman of Freedom Square.
Hassan Blasim is a filmmaker, short-story writer and refugee of the Iraq War. His debut collection (yet to be published in the original Arabic) is a dark excursion into the chaos of contemporary Baghdad, an allegorical snapshot of recent Iraqi history (spanning over twenty years from the Iran-Iraq War through to the Occupation), and a rare critique of the refugee experience in Europe.
Blasim will be reading stories in the original Arabic with English surtitles, and discussing his life and work.
Calder Bookshop
51 The Cut, SE1 8LF
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