Sadeq al-Sayegh
was born in 1936 in Baghdad, Iraq. He has worked in the press, television and radio and published poetry and essays in Iraqi and Arab magazines. In 1967 he gained an MA in Literature (English and Czech) from Charles University, Prague. He left Iraq in 1979 and settled finally in London. He has published three collections of poetry and is an accomplished calligrapher.
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