Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen

Who is Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen?

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen is an Iraqi Australian poet, journalist and translator writing in Arabic and in English.

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen studied Economics and English Literature at the Baghdad University and has a Diploma of Interpreting from the Adelaide Institute of TAFE in South Australia.

He has published 15 poetry collections and won the major prize of Iraqi poetry in 1999. His poetry has been translated into many languages and reviewed by many Iraqi and Arabic critics and published in Man of Letters: 33 critics write about Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's poetry. On the same subject, the Syrian critic Dr. Saleh Arrazzouk has published his book The Social and Knowledgeable Matter in Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's Poetry, the Tunisian critic Dr. Hayet Khyari published her book Add a Letter N, and the Moroccan-Italian critic Dr. Asma Gherib published her book Manifestations of Beauty and Love in Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen’s Poetry.

As a translator, he has translated into Arabic short stories and poems from Australia, Japan, New Zealand, China and the United States.

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen lives in Australia as an Australian citizen. He has been a guest at Friendly Street Poets in Adelaide in 2004 and at the Gallery de la Catessen in Adelaide in 2006 and at South Australian writers' centre in 2012. Some of his poems have been published in The Best Australian Poems 2007, The Best Australian Poems 2012" and in Southerly, Meanjin among other magazines.