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Recommended
Reading/Browsing:
Iraq
The New Dystopians
- Hassan Blasim: Wikipedia | Blasim's Wordpress blog |
Blasim at Comma Press (includes links to online versions of the stories "Green Zone Rabbit," "Don't Kill Me, I Beg You. This Is My Tree," and "The Reality and the Record")| Interview with Jessica Holland (Guernica, 2014) | Review of The Corpse Exhibition by David Kipen (New York Times, 24 January 2014)
- Nael El Toukhy: El Toukhy at American University of Cairo Press | Interview with Omar El Adl (Asymptote, 3 March 2016) | Interview with M. Lynx Qualey (Arabic Literature [in English] 13 October 2014) | El Toukhy in Mada Masr
- Criticism & Context:
- Alexandra Alter, "From the Arab Spring, Dystopian Fiction"
(New York Times 29 May 2016)
- Elisabeth Jacquette, Marcia Lynx Qualey, and Aaron Bady, "Let Loose Your Tongue: A Roundtable on Basma Abdel Aziz's The Queue" (New Inquiry 18 July 2016)
- Rachel Daum, "Basma Abdel Aziz: 'The Worst Thing Is That the Publishers Are Scared, Too'": an interview with Basma Abdel Aziz (Arabic Literatures [in English] 29 December 2015)
- Charlotte Bailey, "Bottled-up Messages" (Index on Censorship 45.3): a short profile and conversation with Basma Abdel Aziz, followed by a short story, "Bottled Up"
- "Global Dystopias, Critical Dystopias": A Podcast with Junot Díaz (Boston Review via Repeating Islands)
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