Whenever we went out to film in the street we would end up in the police station and in the offices of… — Hassan Blasim Agency Copy Share Image
“Every man has both a poetic obligation and a human obligation.” — Hassan Blasim Every man Copy Share Image
The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and… — Hassan Blasim Asking Copy Share Image
The Arab world is full of corruption, in the time of the dictatorships and in the time of anarchy. This corruption is… — Hassan Blasim Activity Copy Share Image
You learn something from the classics but your feelings and your imagination operate in the domain of the colloquial. We need to… — Hassan Blasim Domain Copy Share Image
It's true that we in Iraq are now paying a heavy price as a consequence of senseless violence, but nonetheless there are… — Hassan Blasim Consequence Copy Share Image
Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world. We in Iraq… — Hassan Blasim Around the world Copy Share Image
Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world. — Hassan Blasim Around the world Copy Share Image
My stories were translated and had many reviews before I had an interview with any international or Arab newspaper. If the stories… — Hassan Blasim Festivals Copy Share Image
In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the… — Hassan Blasim Angry Copy Share Image
“You can't understand beauty without peace of mind and you can't get close to the truth without fear.” — Hassan Blasim Beauty Copy Share Image
“Spilled blood and superstition are the basis of the world. Man is not the only creature who kills for bread, or love,… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of… — Hassan Blasim Country Copy Share Image
I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to… — Hassan Blasim Country Copy Share Image
Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality. — Hassan Blasim Breathing Copy Share Image
There's no violence worse than the violence of Iraq. For the last fifty years Iraq has been living a nightmare of violence… — Hassan Blasim Bloodshed Copy Share Image
For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing… — Hassan Blasim Book Copy Share Image
“There's no need to kick him in the balls for him to tell the story honestly and impartially, because the dead are… — Hassan Blasim Death Copy Share Image
Migration was not the only unpleasant experience I went though. I was born and lived in a country ruled by a brutal… — Hassan Blasim Age Copy Share Image
“The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know.” — Hassan Blasim Black humor Copy Share Image
I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary… — Hassan Blasim Ordinary Copy Share Image
“The question of humanity can be solved only by constant dread.” — Hassan Blasim Fear Copy Share Image
