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Iraq+100
Iraq+100: Stories from Another Iraq | Blasim, Ali Bader
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Iraq + 100 poses a question to contemporary Iraqi writers: what might your home city look like in the year 2103 - exactly 100 years after the disastrous American and British-led invasion of Iraq? How might that war reach across a century of repair and rebirth, and affect the state of the country - its politics, its religion, its language, its culture - and how might Iraq have finally escaped its chaos, and found its own peace, a hundred years down the line? As well as being an exercise in escaping the politics of the present, this anthology is also an opportunity for a hotbed of contemporary Arabic writers to offer its own spin on science fiction and fantasy.
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caffeinated.wayfarer
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This is long overdue, but this collection was good. Some stories were definitely better than others, but I overall enjoyed it.

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caffeinated.wayfarer
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WTF? Are vampires a thing in 2100?

caffeinated.wayfarer *spoiler alert*. It‘s aliens. This particular story is bonkers. 5y
Cosmos_Moon_River Dang! Now I know... ☠️ 5y
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caffeinated.wayfarer
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One story down, nine to go. I may end up breaking this collection of short stories up while reading something else at the same time.

Cosmos_Moon_River Ooo, this sounds interesting! 5y
caffeinated.wayfarer @Cosmos_Moon So far it is! I think I maybe missed the point on the second story, but even when I don‘t get it, I feel like a still maybe learn something new. 5y
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Bertha_Mason

"It was hard to imagine that [ISIS] were once even more feared, as a terrorist group, than CAKA, the Christian Assembly of Kansas and Arkansas."
-Ibrahim Al-Marashi, "Najufa"

The author's acronym game is strong. ??

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Bertha_Mason

I had to skip a story called "Kuszib" that turned extremely transmisogynistic. ? I hate cis people so much sometimes.

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prowlix
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10 stories by 10 different Iraqi authors. This collection has wide variety of content and tone. They contain the optimistic, the dark, the strange, and fantastic possible futures of a war torn country. It has aliens, technology and sometimes still religious extremism. I don‘t remember the last time I read an anthology and enjoyed all the individual stories. I loved this and I think it‘s important fiction. 4.5 ⭐️

#Iraq #translation #Arabic

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prowlix
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From intro: “No nation in modern times has suffered as much as Iraq has suffered. Iraq has not tasted peace, freedom or stability since the first British invasion of the country in 1914. Since then, Iraqis have lived through a long saga of wars, Death, destruction, population displacement, imprisonment, torture, ruin and tragedies. So, perhaps unsurprisingly, it was difficult to persuade many Iraqi writers to write stories set in the future...”

prowlix “...when they were already so busy writing about the cruelty, horror and shock of the present, or trying to delve into the past to reread Iraq‘s former nightmares and glories” 7y
Jenshootsweddings Oooooooooh 7y
Nebklvr Interesting. Although, I would say that whole region has been in an uproar since that time. Afghanistan isn‘t exactly stable. Neither is Pakistan. Iran....has its moments 7y
prowlix @Nebklvr I agree! I‘ve been trying to read more Middle Eastern fiction to fill my personal knowledge gaps and found the idea of sci-fi future hard to pass up! 7y
Nebklvr @prowlix I‘ve read a bit of nonfiction but not as much fiction. Will watch your book posts closely for recs 7y
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DrexEdit
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I really need to finish the challenge book I'm reading, but I'm seriously tempted to start this new book from the library! Looking forward to this one!

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Liberty
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Another amazing and important book out today: IRAQ + 100, the first collection of science fiction out of Iraq. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

DrexEdit I have a friend who does nothing but review speculative fiction in translation. Such a rich field for reading. My #TBR grows by leaps and bounds. 😊 7y
Natasha.C.Barnes So excited to read this! 7y
stuartjrodriguez Omg I'll have to check this out immediately 7y
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Natasha.C.Barnes
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Hell yeah!

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Natasha.C.Barnes
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I went looking for some #indiebooks for today's #autumnreads and now my TBR list is overflowing! These look amazing. 📚📚📚(https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/21/hits-and-misses-indie-publishers-pick-their-books-of-2016)

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beckygracelea
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This was really fascinating and some of the stories present interesting twists on the genre and the country's potential destination. Highly recommend.

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beckygracelea
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Morning reading.

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SuperPunkNinja
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What will Iraq look like in 2013? These stories range from sci-fi to whatever you call stories that are not sci-fi. I thought that I bought this book a while ago but nope. Then it was out of stock so I waited waited waited. Now it's mine! All mine! (Maniacal laugh)

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SuperPunkNinja
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What will Iraq look like in the year 2103, 100 years after the U.S. invasion? This book looks amazing!

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Anovelhaul
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I've started a long term project to read a book from every country in the world before I'm thirty. I'm starting with Iraq + 100, a collection of short stories by Iraqi writers that are set one hundred years after the British-American invasion of 2003.

Megabooks Awesome!! 👏🏻👏🏻 8y
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whatthelog
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yet another to add to the TBR...

#diversebooks #DiverseBookBloggers

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beckygracelea
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The good thing about being off sick today was that I was here for the arrival of exciting #bookpost

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BookishFeminist
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This just came across my Twitter feed, and I'm super excited to read it!

It's Iraq's *first* anthology of science fiction, pictured here with its editor, out from Comma Press in the U.K. this November. Most of us will have to wait a little longer, but it will be released as an ebook shortly after its U.K. release. So excited to see what these stories are like! 📚

#wndb #weneeddiversebooks #diversebooks #middleeast #iraq #scifi #pocauthors

ReadingEnvy Awesome!!!! 8y
LindsayReads Oh yes I would like this now please thank you 8y
LeahBergen That sounds amazing (and I'm generally not a sci-fi reader). 8y
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sj_connor Oh that sounds cooooool 8y
read_diverse_books I saw it on Twitter too! It went straight to my TBR. 8y
Boghunden That sounds awfully cool! 8y
Vikz Just pre-ordered it 😀 8y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa That sound really interesting! 8y
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