Elected: 2024
Hassan is an award-winning writer of Iraqi origin, born in Prague and living in London. His plays include The Special Relationship, And Here I Am, Love, Bombs and Apples, The Prophet and Baghdad Wedding (all published by Bloomsbury). Hassan has translated numerous Arabic plays and contributed to several anthologies including Iraq +100 (Comma Press). The script of his short film A Night of Gharam won the Unsolicited Scripts Short Film Grant 2022.
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