Amal al-Jubouri

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

[2] After a dissenting article she wrote came to the notice of Saddam Hussein, al-Jubouri was interrogated and put under surveillance.

[3] She continued writing her poems in Germany, translated German ones into Arabic language and brought out a periodical Diwan.

[4] For a brief period, she also served as the cultural counselor for the Yemeni embassy in Berlin.

[3] 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.