Bryar Bajalan

Bryar Bajalan

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Telephone: +447379290324 

College: College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Research Centre/Unit: Anthropology, Oral History and Literature

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).