Hazim Kamaledin

Hazim Kamaledin (Arabic: حازم كمال الدين; born in Babylon, Iraq in 1954) is an Iraqi 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 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. He settled in Belgium and became artistic leader of two companies: Woestijn ’93 [Desert '93] and Cactusbloem [Cactus Flower]. Kamaledin was a board member of PEN Vlaanderen PEN Vlaanderen from 2016 to 2018. He lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.

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

Books (as novelist, translator & playwright)

Novels: 1994 Tomb of silence (prose - anthology) published by Woestijn '93, in Arabic 2014 Cabaret, in Arabic كاباريهت Flanders literature 2019 Meadows of Hell, in Arabic 2024 The heir, in Arabic

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

Translations: 2019 Theater, Three monologues for an actor, by Jan Fabre, from Dutch into Arabic 2020 Poetry, The Armpits of the Goat, by , from Dutch into Arabic 2022 Theatre, The Towers of Beirut, by , from Dutch to Arabic

Theatre productions (as author & director) 1994–1995, Blauw van as 1995-1996 Les ombres dans le sable 1996-1997 Heupen met hersens 1997-1998 Gamma van stilte 1998-2000 De uren nul 1999-2000 Het oog van de dadel 1999-2000 Pijnboom 2001-2002 Foto's in de storm 2001-2002 De Kop van de Mameluk Djaber 2003-2004 Balling 2003-2004 El Sherife 2003-2004 El Addade 2004-2005 De tochten 2005-2006 Vvredestad 2007-2008 Bagdad bazaar 2008-2009 Oraal