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Jalal Alahmady (c) Kenan Khaddaj
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Jalal Al-Aḥmady (born in Saudi Arabia in 1987) is a post-modern poet from Yemen. His poetry is known beyond his country’s borders throughout the Arabic-speaking world for its innovative, vital and polemical imagery and language. In his poems he confronts tradition and religion in a forthright and critical way, which finds particular favour with the Facebook generation. Since 2010 he has published four collections of poetry and has won several prizes, including the 2014 Abdulaziz-al-Maqalih Prize for Poetry. In Yemen he wrote for various newspapers and for a magazine of the revolutionary movement. In early 2016 he came to Germany via Jordan and Lebanon and is currently a fellow in the Heinrich Böll House in Langenbroich.
Publications:
درج البيت يصعد وحيدا (The Stairs of the House Ascend Alone). Bahrain 2015
أن أُخرج الغابة من صدري (To Get the Jungle Out of My Chest). Meem editions, Algerien 2013
لا يمكنني البكاء مع أحد (I Cannot Cry With Any One). Madarekeditions, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate 2012
شجرة للندم أو أكثر (A Tree for Regret or More). Arwegaeditions, Kairo 2010