Khalid al-Maaly

Khalid al-Maaly was born in al-Samawa, Iraq, in 1956. He is a poet, translator and publisher, now based in Beirut after many years in Cologne, Germany, where he founded Al-Kamel Verlag. He has nine poetry collections, some in German. He has translated works by a number of Arab poets such as al-Sayab, Adonis, Mahmoud Darwish, Sargon Boulus, Saadi Youssef, Unsi al-Hajj.