Khaled Abdallah was born in Deir el Balh in Gaza in 1970. He has published two collections of poems, FM, which won the 2001 AM Qattan Foundation poetry prize and Dar Al-Adaab (Beirut, 2002). A new collection is due in 2009. Khaled has lived in Paris since 2001.
Oded Manor was born in 1942 in Israel and has lived in London since 1969. He works as a humanistic groupworker grounded in the systems approach. While practicing in London, he received his PhD from the LSE and also qualified as a counsellor and a social worker. An academic career followed. He was very fortunate […]
Nuzhat Jabinh translates from Urdu.
Uddipana Goswami is an Assamese poet.
Anna Murison took an MA in Arabic from the School of Oriental and African Studies having obtained her first degree in Arabic at the University of Edinburgh. Her particular area of interest is modern Iraqi poetry.
Ali Salem Iselmu was born in Western Sahara in 1970 and studied journalism in Cuba. He is also a founding member of Generación de la Amistad Saharaui (Sahrawi Friendship Generation) a poetry anthology and collective calling attention to the human rights violations and resisting the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. After returning to the refugee […]
Aladdin Ahmed
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 […]
Antonio Martínez Arboleda produced the literal version of the Sarahawi poet Ali Salem Iselmu’s poem ‘Tiris’.
Bhadra Patel-Vadgama was born and educated in East Africa.She got her first arts degree at Makerere University Uganda and a Diploma in Education at Nairobi University Kenya. After working for six years in schools in Kenya as Deputy Head she emigrated to Britain in 1973. In 1975 she got a postgraduate Diploma in Library & […]