Omar Al-Jaffal

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Omar Al-Jaffal, born in Baghdad in 1988, is an Iraqi journalist and poet. His published poetry collections include The Betrayal of Miss Life (Damascus, 2009), which received an award, and Life in an Exhausted Stretcher (the Netherlands, 2016). His poems have been translated into seven languages. In 2017, his journalistic work received the Mustafa Al-Husseiny Prize for the best young Arabic-language article, and he was shortlisted for the Arab Journalism Award. Al-Jaffal was a Böll Fellow and a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2020.

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Abdalrahman Alqalaq, Abdullah Alqaseer, Ahmad Katlesh, Ali Abdollahi, Dima Al-Bitar Kalaji, Fady Jomar, Galal Alahmadi, Hussein Mohammadi, Jafar Sael, Lina Atfah, Lubna Abou Kheir, Mariam Meetra, Omar Al-Jaffal, Osamah Al-Dhari, Pegah Ahmadi, Rabab Haidar, Rasha Habbal, Ronan Ahmad, Sam Zamrik, Shukri Al Rayyan, Yamen Hussein, Christine Koschmieder, Daniela Dröscher, Ilma Ingold-Rakusa, Ivana Sajko, Ivna Žic, Joachim Sartorius, Julia Schoch, Julia Weber, Katerina Poladjan, Kristine Bilkau, Lena Gorelik, Marica Bodrožić, Martin Kordić, Michael Krüger, Monika Rinck, Nino Haratischwili, Annett Gröschner, Nora Bossong, Olga Grjasnowa, Peter Stamm, Sabine Scholl, Samuel Mago, Saša Stanišić, Sylvia Geist, Tanja Dückers, Ulf Stolterfoht, Ulla Lenze, Ulrike Almut Sandig, Usama al-Shahmani, Zsuzsanna Gahse, Freshta Ghani, Mariam Al-Attar, Maryam Mahjube, Salma Salem, Stella Gaitano, Batool, Widad Nabi, Dima Al-Bitar Kalaji, Christiane Collorio, Annika Reich, Melika Foroutan, Sabin Tambrea