Draft:Mohammed Abd Hassan

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

Early life
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 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".

Education and adulthood
He started his primary education at "The Republic Elementary School- مدرسة الجمهورية التطبيقية الابتدائية النموذجية" in 1971. 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. 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
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 جماعة البصرة أواخر القرن العشرين).

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

Further R* Criticeading and links

 * 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)*