Bryar Bajalan
Postgraduate Researcher
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
About me:
Bryar Bajalan is a writer, translator, and filmmaker currently pursuing a doctorate in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. His work has appeared in Ambit, Hyperallergic, and Modern Poetry in Translation, among others. His short documentary about early twentieth-century Baghdadi poet Al-Zahawi won an award for outstanding achievement at the Tagore International Film Festival. With Shook, he has co-translated Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi’s A Friends Kitchen (Poetry Translation Centre, 2023) and Zêdan Xelef’s A Barcode Scanner (Kashkul Books, 2021/Gato Negro Ediciones, 2022).
Research Unit:
Anthropology, Oral History and Literature
