Mahmoud al-Braikan
was a highly regarded poet, and was born in al-Zubair, southern Iraq. He studied law at Baghdad University in the 1940s. From 1953 to 1959 he was a teacher in Kuwait, then returned to Baghdad and completed his law studies in 1964. He taught Arabic language and literature at Basra’s Teachers’ Training College until his retirement in the 1990s. He was killed in his Basra home on 28 February 2002, apparently by thieves.
Latest News
16/05/2012Mexican author Carlos Fuentes dies, aged 83
[read more]15/05/2012
80-year-old Aharon Appelfeld's novel wins UK Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
[read more]04/05/2012
Three Percent's 2012 Best Translation – winners are Wieslaw Mysliwski’s Stone Upon Stone and Kiwao Nomura’s Spectacle & Pigsty
[read more]28/04/2012
TRIPOLI INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL
Organised by Ashur Etwebi and Khaled Mattawa
[read more]14/04/2012
14 April to 27 May
I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another
New film about Banipal editor Etel Adnan by the Otolith Group showing at the Fabrica Gallery in Brighton
28/03/2012
The Druze of Belgrade by Rabee Jaber wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2012
[read more][read all news stories]