Galal Alahmadi

Galal Alahmadi, born in 1987 in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, is a Yemeni poet, journalist and editor. He spent the first 20 years of his life in Saudi Arabia and studied civil engineering and literature in Yemen. Following political disputes, he fled first to Jordan and then to Lebanon. In 2011, he won first prize in a national poetry competition in Yemen; in 2014, he received the Abdulaziz al-Maqalih Poetry Prize, and in 2017 the Afifi Matar Prize for Poetry in Cairo. In 2019, he was awarded the Torschreiber scholarship by the Stiftung Brandenburger Tor and the Allianz Kulturstiftung. Alahmadi published four poetry collections in Arabic. His Arabic-German collection The Emptiness of the Vase was published in 2020.