Houda Hajji is a Tunisian poet born in 1965. She studied Arabic language and literature in the Higher Teacher Training Institute in Souse, and she currently works as teacher at a secondary school. She has participated in several literary forums in Tunisia, Libya, and Morocco. Her poems have been translated into English, Italian, Spanish,…
BIO Abdel-Rahim Jdaih is a Jordanian poet, critic, educator, artist, and journalist. He was born in the city of Irbid in 1964. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts, a Master’s degree in Classic Archeology, and a higher diploma in Education. In addition to his position as an educator, he worked with the…
BIO Abdullah Al-Araimi is one the most prominent poets of the Sultanate of Oman. He started writing poetry in the early 1990’s. He has participated in poetry readings and festivals in Arab and European countries, including Dhabi, Tunisia, Mauritania, and Libya. He has published four poetry collections: The Concerto of Words (2005), Give me…
BIO Afraa Kamir Talibi is an Algerian Poet and journalist. She holds a diploma in journalism and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. She has published a poetry collection titled Who has Wounded the Rose? (2011) and a collection of haiku titled There are No Traces on the Sand for Me to Go Back (2016)….
BIO Ahmed Abu-Saleem is a Palestinian poet and novelist. He was born in Zarka, Jordan in 1965. As a descendant of a Palestinian family that migrated to Jordan in 1948, he attended the UN Relief and Work Agency schools in Zarka Refugee Camp. He started his college Education in Turkey. Later he travelled to…
BIO Ibaa Ismail is a Syrian American poet. She was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1962. She received her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Tishreen University in Syria, then she continued her graduate studies in English and American Literature at Eastern Michigan University. Her talent started to shine when she was an undergraduate student….
Marian Haddad is a Pushcart-nominated poet, writer, manuscript & publishing consultant, private writing mentor, lecturer and creative workshop instructor. Her book of poems, Wildflower. Stone., is the first hardback in the nearly-25-years Pecan Grove Press had been in existence, and is endorsed by Pulitzer Prize poet, Yusef Komunyakaa, who states, “this collection…celebrates the observable mysteries of daily…
BIO Mohammad Helmi Rishah is a Palestinian poet, translator and researcher. He is the director general of the Palestinian House of Poetry and the editor-in-chief of Palestinian Literary Journal Masharef Maqdisiyah (Jerusalem Hills). Rishah received a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business Management, and another in Arabic Literature. Rishah started working for the Palestinian House…
BIO Mukhtar Huduri, a young Somali poet and writer whose poetry reflects his concern with the political and military conflicts among the different factions in his country. He also treats subjects related to the Islamic world, including the Palestinian problem. Mukhtar was born in the city of Hudur in the south of Somalia. He…
BIO Sam Hamod is an American poet and writer of Lebanese Muslim descent, born and raised in the United States. He received a PhD from the famed Writers Workshop of The University of Iowa, and taught at Princeton, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Howard, Valparaiso and Indiana Universities. He also taught in the Middle East, Africa and…
BIO Yahia Al-Samawi is a prolific, award winning Iraqi poet, writer, and educator, who currently lives in Australia. He was born in Samawa, Iraq, in 1949. He graduated from Al-Mustansyriah University in Baghdad, and worked both as a teacher and journalist. His poems have been published in both Arabic and Australian media. A selection of…
BIO Dunya Mikhail was born in Iraq in 1965 and came to the United States in 1996. She has six books in Arabic, three in English, and one in Italian. They include The Iraqi Nights, Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea, and The War Works Hard. She also edited a pamphlet of Iraqi…
