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[28 Sep 2014 | No Comment | 523 views]
Sinan Antoon’s “The pomegranate alone”

In the quietness of a corpse washer’s workshop, Antoon explores the multiple faces of violence in Iraq.

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[28 Sep 2014 | No Comment | 300 views]
Sinan Antoon’s “Ave Maria”

Antoon tackles the difficult topic of sectarianism in Iraq.

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[28 Sep 2014 | No Comment | 220 views]
Najla Jraissati Khoury’s “Pearls on a branch”

In a unique book, Khoury transcribes for the first time oral folk tales from the Levant.

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[9 Apr 2014 | No Comment | 190 views]
Wannous from Syria, to Germany and back to Iraq

Interest in the work of Syrian playright Saadallah Wannous has been gaining more and more interest in the recent years. A german production of the play that took place in November of 2012 in TAK (TAK Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg) in Berlin, was recently in Iraq’s Kurdish parts. The play, an adaptation of Wannous’ Rituals for a metamorphosis was well received by the press.

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[25 Mar 2014 | No Comment | 195 views]
Jabbour Douaihy’s “American Neighborhood”

The author of “Rose Fountain Motel”, “June rain” and “Chased away” recently published his new novel “American Neighborhood”. The book tells the story of an ordinary young man recruited for the djihad in Iraq.

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[25 Mar 2014 | No Comment | 315 views]
Mostafa Khalifa’s “The Shell”

RAYA is proud to represent Mostafa Khalifa’s “The shell”, a narrative and literary non fiction story of a man who was unjustly, and without a trial, jailed for 12 years in Syria.