Imagining Iraq

What will Iraq be like, 100 years in the future? How are Muslim women imagined in the future? In this episode, Professor Ahmed Ragab explores literary imaginaries of the future of the Middle East. He starts by discussing the story, Kahramana, from the recent short-story collection edited by Hassan Blasim, Iraq +100. He compares the story of Kahramana to the superhero, Dust from Marvel comics, to demonstrate how writers based in Iraq navigate and subvert the expectations of Western audiences. Audio credits: Thanks as always to The Overseas Ensemble, a collaboration between composer Paed Conca and Sarigama, for use of their music Image courtesy of Sara Alfaqeeh.

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Imagining Iraq is an episode from Ventricles by Center for Black, Brown and Queer Studies.

This episode is 00:23:19 long.

This episode was published on Oct 13, 2018.

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