Ali Ja'far al-Allaq
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Native name
علي جعفر العلاق
Born1945 (age 79–80)
Kut, Wasit, Kingdom of Iraq
Kut, Wasit, Kingdom of Iraq
Occupation
- Poet
- Literary critic
- Academic
LanguageArabic, English
Ali Ja'far al-Allaq | |
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| Native name | علي جعفر العلاق |
| Born | 1945 (age 79–80) Kut, Wasit, Kingdom of Iraq |
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| Language | Arabic, English |
| Alma mater | Al-Mustansiriya University, University of Exeter |
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Ali Ja'far al-Allaq (Arabic: علي جعفر العلاق, romanized: ʻAlī Jaʻfar al-ʻAllāq; born 1945) is an Iraqi poet, literary critic and academic. He graduated from the universities of Al-Mustansiriya in 1973, and Exeter in 1984. He held many administrative and academic positions, and wrote several collections of poetry and important critical studies, which had an important role in the modern Iraqi poetic movement.[1][2][3][4][5]
