Edinburgh Review 127

Edinburgh Review 127: Iraq

This issue offers perspectives on their home country from Iraqi writers and others inspired its contemporary situation. Inevitably, it features celebration and lament in the form of fiction, poetry and commentary.

FICTION

Baghdad
Haifa Zangana

The Last Letter
S.H. McGregor

Fairytales
Hassan Abdulrazzak

By Any Other Name
Radhika Dogra Swarup

Immediately Before the Incident at Marqab al-Amir
Keith Aitchison

Space
Lynsey Calderwood

POETRY

Saadi Youssef

Salam Al-Asadi

Andrew Philip (after Sinan Antoon)

Basim Furat

Shampa Ray

Abd Al-Wahhab Al-Bayati

Dikra Ridha

Gerda Stevenson

Gary Allen

Charles Bennet

ARTICLES

You Will Be Next
Zuhair Al-Jezairy

Long After the Tyrants Perished
Hassan Abdulrazzak

Wandering Western Women
Hannah Adcock

Freedom and Exile
Hussain Al-Mozany Interviewed by Jennie Renton

PHOTOGRAPHS

Photographs of Iraq
Anmar Al-Gaboury

REVIEWS

Hannah Adcock
Jenni Calder
Catherine Czerkawska
A.C. Clark
David Finkelstein
Alasdair Gillon
Stephen Lackaye
Michael Lister
Matt McGuire
Niall O'Gallagher
Faith Pullin
Tessa Ransford


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