Ali Badr [iq]

Ali Badr is a novelist born in Baghdad, where he studied French
Literature. He worked as an editor for Al-Talia literature magazine and
published several articles and poems in Iraqi and Arab newspapers and
magazines. With his novels he has won various prizes, e.g. the state
award for literature in Baghdad in 2001, the Tunisian Abu Al-Qassem
Al-Shabi award and the Ibn Battuta price for contemporary journeys.