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 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…
“An Introduction to Arab Poetics” by Adonis. Presented by Jack Foley on his KPFA radio show, “Cover to Cover.” *****
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…
The writer Ishmael Reed once praised Sam Hamod as “… a brilliant poet in the ancient sense of the word. He can write as though his pen were a sword, as well as write as though his pen were the stem of a rose.” Those who are familiar with the work of Sam Hamod would agree….
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…
