Omar al-Ansari
was born in Timbuktu in 1966. His early years were spent in Kano, Nigeria, where his family emigrated to escape the drought, before he went to live in Saudi Arabia. Since 1992 he has worked as a journalist, and in 2006 published Al-Rijal al-Zurq (The Blue Men) about the Tuareg. He currently lives and works in Dubai.
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