About Mortada Gzar
Mortada Gzar is an Iraqi novelist, filmmaker, and visual artist. He has an engineering degree from the University of Baghdad, and has been a participant of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has written, directed and produced a number of films that have screened at international festivals. His animation, Language won the Doha Film Award. He is the author of three novels: Broom of Paradise, 2008, Sayyid Asghar Akbar, 2013, and My Beautiful Cult, 2016, and is a regular contributor to the Lebanese newspaper al-Safir al-Arabiandis.
