Shalash the Iraqi travelling Like using a historical Linotype

Like using a historical Linotype machine to print materials

in which thousands of images and photos that he meticulously collected from sources such as magazines

reconceptualizing the very meaning of design

the traces of a personal fashion vocabulary composed over the course of sixteen seasons

Shalash the Iraqi travelling Like using a historical LinotypePopulated by a cast of imagined con artists, holy fools, drag queens, and partisans as well as some very factual politicians, priests, and generals this novel started life as a pseudonymous blog written live by Shalash during and after the Second Iraq War. Never written to be published, all but lost save for disintegrating printouts treasured by its devotees, Shalash the Iraqi is here presented in its first authorised translation, with the blessing