Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Iraqi Fiction Today
A Note on Language and Spelling
Muhammad Khodayyir
Yusuf’s Tales
The Turtle Grandmother
Friday Bounties
Lutfiyya al-Dulaimi
Hayaat’s Garden
Shahrazad and Her Narrators
Lighter Than Angels
Mahdi Isa al-Saqr
Waiting
The Returnee
Breaking Away
Morning Exercises
A Dreamer in Dark Times
Mayselun Hadi
Her Realm of the Real
Calendars
Outage
Abdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie
The Tattoo
A Man and a Woman
Samira Al-Mana
The Soul
That Thing We Call Age
A Dormant Alphabet
Sexual Complacency
Abdul Sattar Nasir
Good-bye, Hippopotamus
Jalil al-Qaisi
Zulaikha
Samir Naqqash
Tantal
Salima Salih
Those Boys
Samuel Shimon
The Street Vendor and the Movies
Mahmoud Saeed
Bitter Morning
A Figure in Repose
Nasrat Mardan
Bar of Sweet Dreams
Sufi Blessings
Ibtisam Abdullah
The Nursery
The Other in the Mirror
Ibrahim Ahmed
The Arctic Refugee
Shmuel Moreh
A Belly Dancer from Baghdad
Glossary