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)….
Ahmed Abu-Saleem
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…
Ibaa Ismail
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: Spiritual Journey
“…and the happiness that art can bring.” Marian Haddad *****
Marian Haddad
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
“An Introduction to Arab Poetics” by Adonis. Presented by Jack Foley on his KPFA radio show, “Cover to Cover.” *****
Mohammad Helmi Rishah
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…
Mukhtar Huduri
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…
In the Shade of a Cedar: An Interview with Sam Hamod, by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
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….
Sam Hamod
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…
Yahia Al-Samawi
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…
Dunya Mikhail: Translated from the original Arabic into English by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
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…