Ammiel Alcalay
is a poet, translator, critic and scholar. He teaches at Queens College, New York, and is former chair of Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures; he is on the Medieval Studies and Comparative Literature faculty at the CUNY Graduate Centre. He has been a regular contributor to the Village Voice Literary Supplement and his poetry, prose, reviews, critical articles, editorials and translations have appeared in many other US publications.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal No 21 Autumn 2004
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