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Guapa

Saleem Haddad

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Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Illustrated Books, and Manga

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Palestine

Lebanon

Egypt

Syria

Iraq

Morocco

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Iran

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Feminism and Gender

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Anthropology and Society

Politics

Journalism and Media Studies

Psychology

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Religion and Spirituality

Business and Finance

Music

Political, Cultural, and Social History

Saleem Haddad was born in Kuwait City to an Iraqi-German mother and a Palestinian-Lebanese father. He has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières and other international organisations in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, and Egypt. His first novel, Guapa, was published in 2016, a political and personal coming-of-age story of a young gay man living through the 2011 Arab revolutions. The novel received critical acclaim from the New Yorker, The Guardian, and others, was awarded a Stonewall Honour and won the 2017 Polari First Book Prize. Haddad was also selected as one of the top 100 Global Thinkers of 2016 by Foreign Policy Magazine. His directorial debut, Marco, premiered in March 2019 and was nominated for the 2019 Iris Prize for "Best British Short Film".

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