Career
He writes in Arabic. Blasim went to Finland as a refugee in 2004 after getting in trouble when making the film in the Kurdish area in northern Iraq. He made four short films for the Finnish broadcasting company Yle. His book The Iraqi Christ, translated from Arabic to English by Jonathan Wright, and published by Comma Press in 2013.
A selection of his stories was published as The Corpse Exhibition by Penguin United States in 2014.