Luay Hamza Abbas (born 1965) is an Iraqi writer. He now teaches

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at Basra University. Abbas has published several volumes of short stories and one novel. In 2010, the

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awarded a grant to academic and translator

Yasmeen Hanoosh Yasmeen Hanoosh is an academic, fiction writer, and translator from Iraq. She was born in Basra in 1978. She moved to the United States in 1995, subsequently obtaining a BA, MA and PhD (in Middle Eastern Studies) from the University of Michigan. Th ...

to translate Abbas' short story collection ''Closing His Eyes'' (2008).NEA announcement of translation grant
The title story of this volume was translated earlier in Banipal 27 and also won the 2006 Kikah Best Short Story Award in

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