was born in Baghdad in 1965. He graduated from Faculty of Languages, Baghdad University, in 1989. He left Iraq in 1992 and became a journalist on Iraqi exile newspapers. He has published his poetry in several Arab newspapers and magazines. In 2002 his first collection was published, Akhtaam Hijeriya – ma maalik li Ghadin Hayraan (Dar Makhtootat). Since 1997 he has lived in Holland.
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Banipal No 18 Autumn 2003
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