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 anthology Wine from Wounds was published. After a dissenting article she wrote came to the notice of Saddam Hussein, 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 Arabic languag...