Ali Ghadeer (

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

: علي غدير) (born Jan. 1st 1971) is an

Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...

i writer and journalist. He studied

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at a military college, and obtained his BA in 1993. As a journalist, he has worked for a number of Iraqi news outlets. He has published several books till date, including short stories, poetry and a novel. In 2011, he was chosen to participate in the third IPAF Nadwa, a writers' workshop in

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, held under the aegis of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al-Nahyan.

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1971 births 21st-century Iraqi novelists 21st-century Iraqi poets Iraqi journalists Iraqi male short story writers Iraqi short story writers Living people 20th-century Iraqi poets {{Iraq-writer-stub