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After nine years in a Dutch asylum centre, Samir finally has the chance to start his new life as a European citizen. But its a full-time occupation for him to discover that integration needs a dog leash and a rubber ball. Happily, this distracts him from what is happening in his native land, Iraq, and from Leda, who stole his heart in the first village he stayed in after being granted refugee status. In this hilarious adventure story, we follo...

By the author of Two Blankets, Three Sheets, published in January 2020 Based on the author's personal experience Picks up where Two Blankets, Three Sheets left off, but stands alone as a novel In Two Blankets, Iraqi refugee Samir spends nine years in a Dutch refugee center. In The Leash, he is finally released and has a chance to start his new life as a European citizen Uniquely humorous adventure story in which a newly released immigrant fro...

Samir arrives in Amsterdam having fled conscription into Saddam Hussein's army and subsequently wandered Asia for seven years. From the airport, he is transported to an asylum centre, faced with five-hundred co-habitants and nine years of engaging with Dutch bureaucracy. A funny and compassionate window on a defining aspect of the modern era. Al Galidi is a popular poet and performer.

Amsterdam Airport, 1998. Samir Karim steps off a plane from Vietnam, flushes his fake passport down the toilet, and requests asylum. Fleeing Iraq to avoid conscription into Saddam Hussein's army, he has spent seven years anonymously wandering through Asia. Now, safely in the heart of Europe, he is sent to an asylum centre and assigned a bed in a shared dorm--where he will spend the next nine years. As he navigates his way around the absurditie...