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Ali Al-Jallawi (born 1975 in Manama, Bahrain) is a poet and writer. At just seventeen years of age he was arrested because of a poem in which he criticised the regime in Bahrain. In his collection Al-Medina al-akhira (The Last City), Al-Jallawi dreams of a perfect city, a city of poets, in which everyone is free to express her thoughts. The work is dedicated to his friend Isa, who, condemned to death, was in prison with Al-Jallawi. As well as seven books of verse, Ali Al-Jallawi has published works on the Baha’i and the country’s Jewish communities for a Bahraini research centre. He has also been writing prose for some time.
Publications (selection):
- Bahraini Poets: Ali Al Jallawi, Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh, Tarafa, Ali Al Shargawi (2010)
- Tashta’il karazat nahd, Al Intishar Al Arabi (Beirut, 2008)
- Dilmuniyat II (Dar Kan’aan, Syrien 2003)
- Dilmuniyat I (Dar Aalia, Kuwait 2002)
- Al Madina Al Akhira (Beirut 2002)
- Al ‘Isyan, Dar Al Mada (Syrien 2000)
- Wajhan li-mra’atin wahida (Dar Al Kunooz, Beirut 1999)