Born in the UK, Sara is of Irish/Iranian descent and is bilingual having been brought up speaking English and Arabic. She’s currently a final year undergraduate at UCL/SOAS studying French and Arabic at UCL/SOAS; once her degree is completeed, she hopes to do further study and research in literature and literary translation. Sara is completing […]
Fatena Al-Gharra was born in and educated in Gaza. She has worked in women
Hafiz Kheir was born 1968 in Khartoum Sudan and moved to the UK in 1992. He is a writer translator and a filmmaker a graduate of the Film & Television School at The London Institute (June 2000). He studied drama and theatre from 1982 to 1986 at the Youth Palace Omdurman Sudan.
Muhammad al-Fayturi was born in Sudan – he does not know the year of his birth – in Al-Janina on the western border of Sudan. His father was a Sufi sheikh of Libyan Bedouin extraction while his mother was from a Gulf tribe which traced its lineage back to the Prophet Muhammad. Soon after his […]
One of the Arab world’s leading intellectuals, Sabry Hafez is Research Professor of Modern Arabic at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS). He has published numerous books and articles in both Arabic and English. His translations of poetry into Arabic, including T S Eliot, have had a significant effect on the development of […]
Atef Alshaer is a Senior lecturer in Arabic Studies at the University of Westminster. He was educated at Birzeit University in Palestine and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he obtained his PhD and taught for a number of years. He is the author of several publications in the fields […]
The Iraqi poet and critic, Worod Musawi, was born in Babylon, south of Baghdad, in 1981. At the age of ten she began writing poetry. That same year, in 1991, she left Iraq with her family for Iran where she studied at Almustafa University in the School of Arabic and Islamic law until 1997; she […]
The Iraqi poet and translator, Abboud al Jabiri, was born in Najaf in 1963. A member of the Iraqi Writers’ Union and the Arab Writers’ Union, he was one of the founders of the Iraqi Youth Literature forum. His five poetry collections are Index of Faults (2007) and Lean on his Blindness (2009), The Museum […]
Joel Mitchell lived in Mauritania for two years, from 2004-2006, while working with an NGO focused on maternal-child health. He studied Arabic first at Harvard University, and published poems in English (mostly) in student publications of Veritas and the Spoken Word Society. While most of Joel’s translation work has been on Medieval authors in Latin, […]
Hazim Al-Temimi was born in 1969 in Nasseryya in southern Iraq, home to the ancient Sumerian civilisation. He currently lives in Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. Hazim obtained his MA in Arabic Language from Bagdad University, Faculty of Literature in 1994. He is a member of Iraqi Union of Writers. A very […]