Abdul Kader El-Janabi

Iraqian-born, Parisian-based, Abdul Kader El-Janabi set off, at the beginning of 1970, for London and after two and a half years, left to Paris where he settled up today as a French citizen.He founded in Paris, in 1973, Le De sir Libertaire, the first surrealist Arabic review, banned in the Arab world for its critical approach to social and religious issues. Author of many collections of poetry and essays, a translator into Arabic of many American and European poets such as Paul Celan, Blaize...See more

Iraqian-born, Parisian-based, Abdul Kader El-Janabi set off, at the beginning of 1970, for London and after two and a half years, left to Paris where he settled up today as a French citizen.He founded in Paris, in 1973, Le De sir Libertaire, the first surrealist Arabic review, banned in the Arab world for its critical approach to social and religious issues. Author of many collections of poetry and essays, a translator into Arabic of many American and European poets such as Paul Celan, Blaize Cendrars, Miroslav Holub, Rene Daumal, Joyce Mansour, William Carlos Williams and recently an international anthology of prose poem, Abdul Kader El- Janabi has also published into French many anthologies of modern Arabic poetry. Most of his surrealist poems are included in his A Horseback Afternoon (Broken Sleep Books, 2022).In his The education of El-Janabi (Journa inactuel de l'oubli, L'Asymetrie 2024), he retraces his route to the frontier of different cultures. He now runs La Revue de la poésie in toto, a magazine dedicated to radical poetry. See less