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Casa Árabe at the Madrid Book Fair of 2026
From May 29, 2026 until June 14, 2026Check dates and times for each activity.
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Casa Árabe headquarters (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
Check dates and times for each activity.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
As part of the eighty-fifth edition of this literary event, which will take place in Madrid’s Retiro Park from May 29 to June 14, Casa Árabe has organized two book presentations. Check out the events below and mark the dates on your calendar.
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 7:00 p.m.
Presentation of Report of Theft Abdul Hadi Sadoun
After the critical success of his novel Memoirs of an Iraqi Dog, translated into four languages, Iraqi writer Abdul Hadi Sadoun is bringing out a new work which delves into the mysteries of the human soul and the hidden layers of our personal memory: Report of Theft. In this novel, Sadoun invites us on an inward-looking journey into the recent past, in which the main character, a man who believes he leads a quiet, uneventful life, faces a completely different reality within the span of a single day. His seemingly simple world is revealed as a closed box full of secrets, threats and unsettling revelations.
The activity is being held as part of Casa Árabe’s “Country Focus: Iraq
Participants: Abdul Hadi Sadoun and Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio.
Monday, June 8, 2026 at 7:00 p.m.
Presentation of the work by Latifa Labsir
With the cooperation of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Latifa Labsir is a Moroccan writer (Casablanca, 1965). She is a professor of Modern Literature at Hassan II University in Casablanca. She has published several collections of short stories and hosted the program “Salón Cultural,” broadcast in a collaboration between Deutsche Welle and Moroccan television. Labsir has published numerous articles in Moroccan and Middle Eastern magazines, and since 2008 she has been publishing monthly columns and articles on literature in the Moroccan women’s magazine “Women of Morocco.” For many years, she has led and continues to lead creative writing workshops at the University School of Arts and Humanities in Casablanca and at various institutions and associations in Morocco.
The event is being held as part of the celebrations of Casa Árabe’s Twentieth Anniversary and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
With the participation of: Latifa Labsir, Antonio Martínez Castro, and Karim Hauser.
Presentation of Report of Theft Abdul Hadi Sadoun
After the critical success of his novel Memoirs of an Iraqi Dog, translated into four languages, Iraqi writer Abdul Hadi Sadoun is bringing out a new work which delves into the mysteries of the human soul and the hidden layers of our personal memory: Report of Theft. In this novel, Sadoun invites us on an inward-looking journey into the recent past, in which the main character, a man who believes he leads a quiet, uneventful life, faces a completely different reality within the span of a single day. His seemingly simple world is revealed as a closed box full of secrets, threats and unsettling revelations.
The activity is being held as part of Casa Árabe’s “Country Focus: Iraq
Participants: Abdul Hadi Sadoun and Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio.
Monday, June 8, 2026 at 7:00 p.m.
Presentation of the work by Latifa Labsir
With the cooperation of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Latifa Labsir is a Moroccan writer (Casablanca, 1965). She is a professor of Modern Literature at Hassan II University in Casablanca. She has published several collections of short stories and hosted the program “Salón Cultural,” broadcast in a collaboration between Deutsche Welle and Moroccan television. Labsir has published numerous articles in Moroccan and Middle Eastern magazines, and since 2008 she has been publishing monthly columns and articles on literature in the Moroccan women’s magazine “Women of Morocco.” For many years, she has led and continues to lead creative writing workshops at the University School of Arts and Humanities in Casablanca and at various institutions and associations in Morocco.
The event is being held as part of the celebrations of Casa Árabe’s Twentieth Anniversary and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
With the participation of: Latifa Labsir, Antonio Martínez Castro, and Karim Hauser.
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