Mohammed Abd Hassan

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Mohammed Abd Hassan (Arabic:محمد عبد حسن) is an Iraqi novelist, Short-stories writer, and a civil engineer. He was born in Basrah, Iraq..^[1]

Early life[edit]

Mohammed Abd Hassan was born on March 21, 1964, in Basrah, the biggest city in the south of Iraq. The place where he grew up was full of Date Palm trees^[2] and near the main river of the city Shatt Al-Arab (نهر شط العرب). The environment of the place where he grew up had a great impact on his writing, which is very noticeable in his first collection of stories "The Flood - الطوفان".^[3]

Education and adulthood[edit]

He started his primary education at "The Republic Elementary School- مدرسة الجمهورية التطبيقية الابتدائية النموذجية" in 1971^[4]. He completed his civil engineering academic career at The University of Basrah. He graduated in 1987.

In 1979, his cousin (Kedury Husain: a member of The Iraqi Communist Party) was arrested^[5]. In 1984, When he was a university student, Mohammad Abd Hassan and all his family members were arrested for a year. The family faced great harassment from the regime. He was arrested again in 1991.

Literary career[edit]

Hassan's interest in literature goes back to the stories of grandmothers and mothers. It mostly takes the stories of One Thousand and One Nights.

The big change in his literary life occurred when he met the novelist Qusay Al-Khafaji (Arabic:قصي الخفاجي), who helped him get to know the cultural community in the city of Basrah and then joined the group (Basrah in the late twentieth Century^[6] جماعة البصرة أواخر القرن العشرين).

After experimenting with more than one literary genre, he found himself in narration, specifically short stories and novels.

Bibliography[edit]

Mohammed Abd Hassan was a member of a short story group called ( Basrah in the late twentieth century جماعة البصرة أواخر القرن العشرين). This Group was formed from a group of Basrah story writers after the Second Gulf War, and it presented short story literature different from what was prevalent at the time in terms of form and subject matter. This group has published more than 10 short stories using the photocopy method. These publications were collected and printed in a new form, issued by Shahryar House Press in 2018 under the title (Stories of Basrah in the Late Twentieth Century / Pioneering Copy Literature in Iraq)^[7]

The writer has works that have been printed and others not. the following are some of his novels:

• Suleiman Al-Wadah(سليمان الوضّاح) (Unpublished novel): This novel won second prize in the Jordanian Writers Association competition for non-members in 1996^[7]
• The Flood and Other Stories (الطوفان وقصص أخرى)(short stories)/first edition 2002/Dar Azmna for Publishing and Distribution/Amman, Jordan.
• Diaspora Maps (خرائط الشتات) (Novel) /first edition 2014/Dafaf Printing, Publishing and Distribution House/Sharjah-Baghdad^[8].
• To Wait for Nothing (أن تنتظر لا شيء) (Very Short Stories)/First Edition 2014/Published by the Basra Writers Union.
• The Game of Patience (لعبة الصبر) (Short Stories)/ Publications of the Writers and Writers Union in Basra. Kiwan House for Printing, Publishing and Distribution - Syria - First Edition 2019^{[9] [10]}
• Seven Voices (سبعة اصوات) (Novel)/ /first edition 2021 / Published by Amel Press for Printing, Publishing and Distribution/ Damascus- Syria^[11][12]
• There is no end to what happened (لانهاية لما حدث) (short stories)/first edition 2022- Publications of the Writers Union / Baghdad - Iraq.

He participated in the following story publications issued by the Union of Writers and Authors in Basra:

• Cafe Memory (very short stories)^[13]
• Narrative Players (short stories)^[13]
• people of Basrah (بصريون) make stories (very short stories)

Further R* Criticeading and links[edit]

• Critical readingsThe archive of the writer Mohammed Abd Hassan on the Alnaked Aliraqi web الناقد العراقي: محمد عبد حسن

• The archive of the writer Mohammed Abd Hassan on Ahewar web الحوار المتمدن: محمد عبد حسن

• An article by the writer Mohammed Abd Hassan in Rai Al-Youm newspaper about the Basrah in the last Century group: محمد عبد حسن: جماعة البصرة أواخر القرن العشرين البيان الأول – عربيًا- في القصة القصيرة جدًا

• Rai Al-Youm newspaper. An article by Dr. Abdul Mahdi Al-Qatamin: "There is no end to what happened" to the Iraqi storyteller Mohammad Abd Hassan. صحيفة رأي اليوم / د. عبدالمهدي القطامين: لا نهاية لما حدث للقاص العراقي محمد عبد حسن

• Al-Adwaa News Agency: Basra writers celebrate the novel (Diaspora Maps), which simulates the pain of exile. ادباء البصرة يحتفون برواية (خرائط الشتات) التي تحاكي اوجاع الغربة

• Al-Quds Al-Arabi Newspaper:(12/4/2006)- The Flood by the Iraqi storyteller Mohammad Abd Hassan: when the people wish to die.../ by: Faisal Abdulhassan. الطوفان للقاص العراقي محمد عبد حسن: عندما يتمني الناس الموت..

• Qusay al-Khafaji: The Very Short Iraqi Story Now; Reading in my collections (Naked Cats) and (To Wait for Nothing) By Mohammed Abd Hassan. قصي الخفاجي: القصة العراقية القصيرة جدًا الآن؛ قراءة في مجموعتي (قطط عارية)(*) و (أن تنتظر لا شيء)(**)

• Critical readings: Diaspora maps... repeated testimonies of the storyteller and novelist Mohammad Abd Hassan/ By Nebil Jameel:خرائط الشتات.. شهادات تتكرر للقاص والروائي محمد عبد حسن
• Reversing the centrality of the narrator in the novel (Diaspora Maps)/ By: Ramzi Hassan. رمزي حسن : نقض مركزية السارد في رواية (خرائط الشتات)*

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