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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.
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 PEN Vlaanderen from 2016 to 2018. [2] He lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
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