Amal Al-Jubouri (born 1967) is an Iraqi writer, poet, translator, journalist and publisher.

Biography

Al-Jubouri was born in Baghdad in 1967. When she was 19, al-Jubouri's first

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''Wine from Wounds'' was published. After a dissenting article she wrote came to the notice of

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, al-Jubouri was interrogated and put under surveillance. She fled Iraq and took political asylum in Germany in 1998. She continued writing her poems in Germany, translated German ones into

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and brought out a periodical ''Diwan''. For a brief period, she also served as the cultural counselor for the Yemeni embassy in Berlin. Her poetry collection ''Eheduanna, the Priestess of Exile'' (1999), won the Best Arabic Book Award at a Lebanese book fair. ''So Much Euphrates Between Us'', another volume of her poems was published in 2003. The same year, she returned to Iraq just a few days after the fall of Hussein. In 2011, ''Hagar Before the Occupation, Hagar After the Occupation'', a collection of her Arabic poems translated into English by Rebecca Gayle Howell and Husam Qaisi, was published. It was shortlisted for the 2012 Best Translated Book Award. ''

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'' included it in its Best Books of 2011 list.

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{{Authority Control 1967 births Living people 20th-century Iraqi poets University of Baghdad alumni Iraqi journalists Iraqi writers Iraqi human rights activists Iraqi translators 21st-century Iraqi poets

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