Ali Nasuh Mawasi
Ali Nasuh Mawasi was born in 1986 in Baqa al-Gharbiyye. His poems and articles have been published in various literary supplements, websites and poetry magazines. He graduated from the Orthodox Arab School in Haifa and completed his Master's degree in Arabic language and literature at the Jordanian University in Amman.
Mawasi is a graduate of the MATAN creative writing program and of the Helicon Poetry School (2005). In 2006, he was awarded the Best Article Prize by the Artistic-Cultural Union of the Jordanian Authority for Higher Education, and in 2007 he was the 'resident poet' of the Jordanian University in Amman.
News
Word Express writer Ognjen Spahić from Montenegro will be visiting London for events with his UK publisher, Istros Books, from the 15th - 18th of May. See the Istros Books website for more details.
This year's Prague Book Fair - Svet Knihy - is focusing on literature the Black Sea region. Word Express writers Ivan Hristov (Bulgaria), Zaza Koshkadze (Georgia) and Pelin Özer (Turkey) will talk about their Balkan literary journey and read their work at the gala evening. Go to the Literature Across Frontiers website for more details.
Word Express interviews Georgian poet Zaza Koshkadze, and talks to Owen Martell and Milan Dobricic about translating and publishing Owen's novel into Serbian after meeting on the Word Express journey. All on the Travel Blog.