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An Iraqi poet, novelist and academic Received a BA in English Literature from the University of Baghdad 1991 Received a MA in Arabic Studies from Georgetown University 1996 Received a Ph.D. from Harvard University 2006 . A novel entitled "Ijam" by Dar Al-Adab in 2004. He directed a documentary film entitled "About Iraq" in 2004. The novel "Only the Pomegranate Tree" about the Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing, Beirut, 2010. Diwan of poetry entitled "One Night in All Cities" about Dar Al-Jamal, 2010. A novel, Maryam, about the massacre of the Church of Deliverance, which was nominated for the Arab Booker Prize and was shortlisted for Dar Al-Jamal for the year 2012. Translations: Ijam was translated by author Rebecca Johnson and published by City Lights in San Francisco in 2007. A group of his poems were translated into English and published by Harper Mountain Press in 2007. His novel "Ijam" has been translated and published in Norwegian, German, Portuguese and Italian.