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"'Post-occupation Iraqi fiction, or post-2003 fiction, is largely absent from the literary accounts of the war in the US. This is why Ikram Masmoudi's War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction, published this year, is a necessary and welcome intervention.'--Nahrain Al-Mousawi ""Middle East Monitor "" 'There are several reasons to heartily celebrate War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction...[it] fills a serious gap in scholarship on Iraqi literature. Uniquely, Masmoudi's monograph establishes itself as a book about the metrics of war, occupation, and incarceration as they confine or annihilate the modern masculine experience in Iraq. It is, to my knowledge, the first and only substantial study in English of the post-2003 Iraqi novel.'--Yasmeen Hanoosh, Portland State University ""Journal of Arabic Literature """

""'With Masmoudi's astute analyses of a group of recent fictional works by Iraqi writers, we enter the disastrous worlds of Iraqi men and women trapped in spirals of conflict and desertion, of bravery and cowardice, of homes and camps. If fiction does indeed give insights into nations"", then Masmoudi's study provides its readers with a vivid portrait of an Iraq whose recent history amidst its different regions and religious affiliations quite apart from dictatorships and foreign invasions leads us to wonder what its future may hold.'"""" -Roger Allen, Emeritus Professor, University of Pennsylvania

"""'With Masmoudi's astute analyses of a group of recent fictional works by Iraqi writers, we enter the disastrous worlds of Iraqi men and women trapped in spirals of conflict and desertion, of bravery and cowardice, of homes and camps. If fiction does indeed give insights into nations"", then Masmoudi's study provides its readers with a vivid portrait of an Iraq whose recent history amidst its different regions and religious affiliations quite apart from dictatorships and foreign invasions leads us to wonder what its future may hold.'"""" -Roger Allen, Emeritus Professor, University of Pennsylvania"

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Ikram Masmoudi is Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Delaware. She has translated Beyond Love a novel by Hadiya Hussein and is currently working on the translation of The Green Zone a novel by Iraqi author Shakir Nuri.

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