Iraqi-born, New Zealand-based architect and author of A Muslim on the Bridge (Signal 8 Press, 2013), Cafe Fayrouz (ASP, 2015), Saddam and I, and the Stockholm Syndrome (Dar El Thaqafa El Gedeeda, 2018), and Letters by Violette: A Journey Through the Life of Baghdad Jewry (ASP, 2020, Arabic translation of Memories of Eden, and Ko Aotearoa Tatou | We are New Zealand: An Anthology (Otago University Press, 2020, contributor). His articles and essays—in Arabic and English—appeared in several newspapers and literary journals in the Arab world, England, the United States and New Zealand. He is a regular contributor to Arcade (Stanford University, USA) and Raseef22.

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