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: Informe sobre el robo (Report of Theft, Aliar ediciones). 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.  
 
As for Children of the Thousand and One Nights (published by Verbum), the author has compiled an anthology that brings together stories from 1980 to the present, offering not only a literary overview but also a social portrait of the country. The 40 texts in the anthology demonstrate how writing can become a form of resistance and active memory, as well as an act of symbolic reconstruction when dealing with devastation. 
 
Accompanying the author will be Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio, a writer and department chair at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Pilar Gómez Rodríguez, a writer and journalist, and Luis Rafael Hernández, an editor and writer. Moderated by Karim Hauser, Casa Árabe’s Culture Coordinator.