Alawi al-Hashimi (Arabic: علوي الهاشمي, born September 1948) is a Bahraini poet and university professor.
He continued his studies by earning a 1968 Diploma in Commerce from the University of London, a 1972 Bachelor of Arts.
In 1978, he began teaching as an assistant professor at the College of Arts of the University of Bahrain.
He also has served as founding treasurer of the Bahrain Writers’ Association and as president it for several terms.
He belongs to a generation of poets emerging in the early 1960s, who contributed to revitalizing, developing, and defining the modern Bahraini literary scene.