BIO Mohammad Ikbal Harb is a Lebanese poet, novelist, and short story writer born in 1954. He holds a bachelor’s degree in health care management from the University of Atlanta. He has published four books: The truth, a novel (2010), The Death of a poetess, short stories (2012), The Lover of Amnesia, poetry (2013), and…
BIO Mohmmad Alaksar, a poet from Yemen, was born in 1970. He received his bachelor’s degree in education from Sanaa University in 1997. Then he pursued graduate studies in Ein Shams University in Cairo, where he received his PhD in Language Studies in 2011. He is currently an assistant professor in Linguistics in Amran…
BIO Mohamed Alkhair Ikleel is a Sudanse poet, novelist, and journalist. He has participated in many poetry events in the Sudan, Egypt, Qatar and Lebanon. He made his debut in 2009 with a poetry collection titled A Look at Africa. Forthcoming are a number of poetry collections, including When the Book Saw Me for the…
BIO Maher Almaqousi is a Palestinian poet from Gaza. He was born in Gaza in 1972. He holds a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, and is currently working on his doctorate degree. He is a member of Palestinian Writers Union. He has participated in a number of poetry festivals and readings in Palestine…
BIO Jeanne d’Ark Souhaid is a Lebanese poet and writer, who has worked as journalist for more than 20 years. She is the founder and president of Ibnat Alarz literary salon, the founder of the Lebanese-Arab Cultural Festival, and the chairperson of Ibnat Alarz Committee for Free Reading In Lebanon. She has received a number…
BIO Faleeha Hassan is an award-winning Iraqi poet, writer, editor and educator and a leading figure in the feminist movement in the holy city of Najaf. She is the first Iraqi woman to write poetry for the children of Iraq. Faleeha was born in Najaf, Iraq, in 1967. She has a master’s degree in…
BIO Hassan Al-Matrooshi is an award-winning poet, translator, and media-man from the Sultanate of Oman. He was awarded the Sultan’s Praise Medal, and honored as the Omani poet for 2016. Hasan has published four Arabic poetry collections: Lonely.. Like My Father’s Grave (2003), On The Same Mountainside (2008), I Have What To Forget (2013). and…
BIO Farouk Banjar is a Saudi poet, writer and educator. He was born in the holy city of Makka in 1949. He has a bachelor’s degree in Arabic Language literature and a master’s degree in Education Management from the University of Oklahoma in the US. In 1998 he made his debut with a collection of…
BIO Amal Awwad Radwan is a Palestinian poet, musician, writer, essayist, journalist, educator and social activist. She was born in the town of I’billin in the north of Palestine. She made her debut in 20005 with a poetry book titled An Almondy Flower Glowing. Since then she has published four poetry collections and seven…
BIO Abdulla Issa is an award-winning Palestinian poet, academic, translator, journalist, political analyst, and film producer living in Moscow. He was born in 1964 in the refugee camp of Bebela, near Damascus, Syria, where his parents had migrated, following the 1948 Palestinian Nakba. Abdulla graduated from The Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature and Creative Writing. He received his PhD from…
In times like these, when the world leaders are bent on building walls between the nations and cultures, and people are more inclined to see their differences from others rather than their commonalities, there are some people who have dedicated themselves to building bridges by transcending the barriers of languages, ideologies and national identities, and…
Nizar Sartawi is a poet, translator, essayist, and columnist. He was born in Sarta, Palestine, in 1951. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Jordan, Amman, and a Master’s degree in Human Resources Development from the University of Minnesota, U.S. Sartawi is a member of the Jordanian Writers Association, General…
