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Yass Assaidi (1982), an Iraqi poet and playwright, published many works of poetry and fiction. He was awarded many prizes, including the Sharjah Award for Arabic Creativity (2007), the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic for the Castello di Duino (2009) for his poem “An Ornament in the Memory of the Old Wanderer”, ALECSO Award for Arabic Creativity (date), Afrabia Award for Poetry (2016), the Fadwa Touqan Award by the Institute of the State of Palestine (2017), the al-Tayeb Salih Prize for Literary Creativity (2022), Bait Alghasham DarArab International Translation Prize (2024) Mbarek Sryfi, poet, translator, and scholar. His work has been widely published in many journals and magazines, and anthologies including Al-Arabiyya, Banipal, CELAAN Review, Metamorphoses, Middle Eastern Literatures, The Journal of North African Studies, Translation Review, World Literature Today, and ArabLit. Sryfi has co-authored Perspectives: Arabic Language and Culture in Film (2009), translated & co-translated, The Monarch of the Square (2014), The Arabs and the Art of Storytelling (2014), The Elusive Fox (2016), The Blueness of the Evening (2018), The Handsome Jew (2022), and Alone by the Nile (2023). Sryfi published a chapbook, The Trace of a Smile (2018), which shared first place, and two collections of poetry, City Poems-A Selection of poems (2020), Chasing a Moving Landscape (2022)