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Amrou Al-Kadhi

Amrou Al-Kadhi (born 23 June 1990) is a British-Iraqi writer, drag performer, and filmmaker whose work primarily focuses on queer identity, cultural r...

Khalid Kaki

شاعر وقاص وفنان تشكيلي ومصمّم وعازف عود ومؤلف موسيقيّ. ولدَ في كركوك في العراق عام 1971 درس الأدب واللغة الأسبانية في جامعة بغداد وتخرج منها عام 1992،...

Hassan Massoudy

Hassan Massoudy was born in Najaf, Iraq. He moved to France in 1969, where he studied at L’École des Beaux-Arts. Considered to be one of the greatest ...

Mahmoud Saeed

Mahmoud Saeed was born in Mosul, Iraq, in 1938. In 1963 he was imprisoned on political charges for a year, to be followed by three years of suspension...

Salima Salih

Salima Salih (Arabic: سالمة صالح; born 1942) is an Iraqi short story writer, translator, and artist, from the city of Mosul. She is well known for her...

Balkis Sharara

بلقيس شرارة وُلدت في النجف عام 1933. حصلت على بكالوريوس في الأدب الإنكليزي من "جامعة بغداد" عام 1956. تمارس الكتابة وتقيم في إنكلترا. صدر لها عن دار ا...

Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi

Dr Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi Al-Rifai was born in Baghdad and spent her childhood in Iraq and Lebanon. Her grandmother initiated her into the cult...

Fouad al-Tikerly

Fouad al-Tikerly (Arabic: فؤاد التكرلي; August 22, 1927 – February 11, 2008) was a prominent Iraqi novelist and writer, best known for his groundbreak...

Nizar Abd al-Sattar

نزار عبد الستار قاصّ وروائيّ عراقي، وُلد في بغداد عام 1967. نالت روايته الأولى «ليلة الملاك» اهتمامًا واسعًا ومُنحت عام 1999 جائزة أفضل رواية عراقيّة ...

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

ArabLit, ArabLit Quarterly, and ALQ Books are a translator-centered collective that produces a website, quarterly magazine...

Faleeha Hassan

Faleeha Hassan (born 1967) is an Iraqi poet living in New Jersey. Early life and education Hassan was born and raised in Najaf. She was a precociou...

Luay Hamza Abbas

Luay Hamza Abbas (born 1965) is an Iraqi writer. He now teaches literary criticism at Basra University. Abbas has published several volumes of short s...

Muhsin al-Ramli

Muhsin Al-Ramli (Arabic: محسن الرملي, officially known as Muhisin Mutlak Rodhan; born 7 March 1967) is an expatriate Iraqi writer living in Madrid, Sp...

Abd al-Sattar Nasir

عبد الستار ناصر جدوع الزوبعي (1947-2013) هو كاتب وقاص عراقي، ولد في محلة الطاطران البغدادية، كان مدير تحرير مجلة التراث الشعبي البغدادية، ويُعد أحد كت...

Jawad al-Assadi

Jawad al-Assadi is an Iraqi theater director, playwright, theater researcher and poet. Al-Assadi was born on January 12, 1947, in Karbala. While still...

Ali Yass

Ali Yass is a painter and filmmaker. His work entangles personal and collective memory in its interrogation of power within the re...

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Amal al-Jubouri

Amal Al-Jubouri (born 1967) is an Iraqi writer, poet, translator, journalist and publisher. Biography Al-Jubouri was born in Baghdad in 1967. When ...

Ali Eyal

Ali Eyal, (Arabic: علي عيّال) (born April 28, 1994) Is an Iraqi visual artist and he's currently based in Los Angeles who works internationally. His w...

Ali Bader

Ali Bader (Arabic علي بدر) is an Iraqi novelist, poet, poetry translator, script writer, critic, regarded as the most significant writer to emerge in ...

Amrou Al-Kadhi

Amrou Al-Kadhi (born 23 June 1990) is a British-Iraqi writer, drag performer, and filmmaker whose work primarily focuses on queer identity, cultural r...