Hazim Kamaledin

Hazim Kamaledin (born in Babylon, Iraq in 1954) is a playwright, theatre director, actor, author (novel, short story, translation), and editor, born in Babylon, Iraq. In 2014, The Arab Theatre Institute proclaimed him best playwright of the year.

Life[edit]

Kamaledin studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad, Iraq. In the late seventies, Kamaledin fled from Iraq after he had been threatened, arrested and tortured. He also made a satirical play for which he was sentenced to death.^[1] He came to Belgium and became artistic leader of two companies: Woestijn ’93 [Desert '93] and Cactusbloem [Cactus Flower]. Kamaledin was a board member of PEN Vlaanderen https://penvlaanderen.be/ from 2016 to 2018.^[2] He lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.

Awards[edit]

In 2014 he was pronounced Best Theatre Writer of the Year by the Arabic Theatre Institute.^[3]
In 2016 his novel 'Desertified Water' was nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

Books (as novelist, translator & playwright)[edit]

Novels:

1994 Tomb of silence (prose - anthology) published by Woestijn '93, in Arabic
2014 Cabaret, in Arabic كاباريهت^[4]
2016 Desertified Water, in Arabic^[5] مياه متصحرة [ar]
2016 Schoonheid raast in mij tot ik sterf, in Dutch Beauty Will Rage Within Me Until the Day I Die^[6] Flanders literature^[7]
2019 Meadows of Hell, in Arabic^[8]
2020 The Confusing Episodes of The Lady of The Necrophilia, in Arabic^[9]
2022 Dalia Rushie's Affaires, in Arabic^{[citation needed]}
2023 Koninkrijken, proza/drama, in Dutch^[10]
2024 The heir, in Arabic ^[11]

Drama:

2003 El Addade, in Dutch, published by Woestijn '93^[12]
2011 The Tomb of the Lady, four monologues, In Arabic, published by Dar Alghaoon, Lebanon^[13]
2016 Premeditated Insanity, in Arabic السادرون في الجنون, United Arab Emirates, published by Arab Theater Institute^[14]

Translations:

2019 Theater, Three monologues for an actor, by Jan Fabre, from Dutch into Arabic^[15]
2020 Poetry, The Armpits of the Goat, by Annemarie Estor [nl], from Dutch into Arabic
2022 Theatre, The Towers of Beirut, by Paul Verrept [nl], from Dutch to Arabic^[16]

Theatre productions (as author & director)[edit]

1994–1995, Blauw van as^[17]
1995-1996 Les ombres dans le sable^[18]
1996-1997 Heupen met hersens^[19]
1997-1998 Gamma van stilte^[20]
1998-2000 De uren nul^[21]
1999-2000 Het oog van de dadel^[22]
1999-2000 Pijnboom^[23]
2001-2002 Foto's in de storm^[24]
2001-2002 De Kop van de Mameluk Djaber^[25]
2003-2004 Balling^[26]
2003-2004 El Sherife^[27]
2003-2004 El Addade^[28]
2004-2005 De tochten^[29]
2005-2006 Vvredestad^[30]
2007-2008 Bagdad bazaar^[31]
2008-2009 Oraal^[32]
2009-2010 De graftombe van de dame^[33]^[34]

References[edit]

^ "Hazim Kamaledin - Boeken & Biografie - Polis". polis.be. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
^ "Missie". penvlaanderen.be. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
^ https://www.alwatanvoice.com/arabic/news/2014/10/16/604697.htm ^{[dead link]}
^ "كاباريهت وأقتراب موت الذات – اضواء – مؤيد داود البصام". 17 January 2015.
^ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26138902
^ https://www.flandersliterature.be/books-and-authors/book/beauty-will-rage-within-me-until-the-day-i-die
^ Archived 2018-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
^ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52001820
^ أساليب سردية لابتكار القسوة | محمود الغيطاني
^ https://www.epo.be/nl/boeken/9789075175943/koninkrijken
^ [1]
^ DE SINGEL
^ عند مرقد السيدة
^ [https://altibrah.ae/author/16137 حازم كمال الدين
^ [2]
^ أديبة تبحث عن الكمال في الشرق.. من هي "أنماري أستر"؟
^ KSP - Producties - Blauw van as (1994-1995-podiumproductie)
^ ASP@sia - Les Ombres dans le sable-1994-1995
^ http://data.kunsten.be/productions/heupen-met-hersens-2
^ VTI - Theater Texts - Gamma van stilte
^ VTI - Theater Texts - De uren nul
^ Woestijn 93 brengt psychedelische choreografie met Sheherazade
^ VTi - Theater Texts - Pijnboom
^ "KSP - Producties - Foto's in de storm (2001-2002-podiumproductie)".
^ [3]
^ KSP - Producties - Balling (2002-2003-podiumproductie)
^ KSP - Producties - El sherife (2003-2004-podiumproductie)
^ KSP - Theaterteksten - El Addade
^ [4]
^ [5]
^ [6]
^ [7]
^ [8]
^ "KSP - Personen - Hazim Kamaledin". data.kunsten.be.

[1] "Hazim Kamaledin - Boeken & Biografie - Polis". polis.be. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2017.

[2] "Missie". penvlaanderen.be. Retrieved 5 August 2017.

[3] ttps://www.alwatanvoice.com/arabic/news/2014/10/16/604697.htm ^{[dead link]}

[4] "كاباريهت وأقتراب موت الذات – اضواء – مؤيد داود البصام". 17 January 2015.

[5] ttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26138902

[6] ttps://www.flandersliterature.be/books-and-authors/book/beauty-will-rage-within-me-until-the-day-i-die

[7] Archived 2018-09-21 at the Wayback Machine

[8] ttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52001820

[9] أساليب سردية لابتكار القسوة | محمود الغيطاني

[10] ttps://www.epo.be/nl/boeken/9789075175943/koninkrijken

[11] [1]

[12] DE SINGEL

[13] عند مرقد السيدة

[14] [https://altibrah.ae/author/16137 حازم كمال الدين

[15] [2]

[16] أديبة تبحث عن الكمال في الشرق.. من هي "أنماري أستر"؟

[17] KSP - Producties - Blauw van as (1994-1995-podiumproductie)

[18] ASP@sia - Les Ombres dans le sable-1994-1995

[19] ttp://data.kunsten.be/productions/heupen-met-hersens-2

[20] VTI - Theater Texts - Gamma van stilte

[21] VTI - Theater Texts - De uren nul

[22] Woestijn 93 brengt psychedelische choreografie met Sheherazade

[23] VTi - Theater Texts - Pijnboom

[24] "KSP - Producties - Foto's in de storm (2001-2002-podiumproductie)".

[25] [3]

[26] KSP - Producties - Balling (2002-2003-podiumproductie)

[27] KSP - Producties - El sherife (2003-2004-podiumproductie)

[28] KSP - Theaterteksten - El Addade

[29] [4]

[30] [5]

[31] [6]

[32] [7]

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[34] "KSP - Personen - Hazim Kamaledin". data.kunsten.be.

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