Hasan Namir
1) Banana dream
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Holiday House
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English
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Eleven-year-old Iraqi, Mooz, yearns to taste the bananas that have been made unavailable by warfare.
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"The debut book by Hasan Namir is a revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003. Ramy is a closeted university student whose parents have died, and who lives under the close scrutiny of his strict brother and sister-in-law. They exert pressure on him to find a wife, leaving him anguished and struggling to find a balance between his sexuality, religion, and culture. Desperate for counsel, he seeks the advice of Ammar,...
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Dear Child,
Once upon a time,
Your dads wanted to have a baby.
It was a life-long dream of ours.
We were always hopeful.
Award-winner Hasan Namir shares a joyful collection about parenting, fatherhood and hope. These warm free-verse poems document the journey that he and his husband took to have a child. Between love letters to their young son, Namir shares insight into his love story with his husband, the complexities of the IVF surrogacy process...
5) War / Torn
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English
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War / Torn, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity-the performance and sense of belonging they delineate and draw together. Namir summons prayer, violence, and the sensuality of love, revisiting tenets of Islam and dictates of war to break the barriers between the profane and the sacred.