Qassim Haddad

Qassim Haddad was born in 1948 in Muharraq, in Bahrain. He left school before the end of secondary education, worked in construction and then at the public library, and educated himself. He co-founded the Bahrain writers' society in 1969 and the Awal theatre in 1970, was held in political detention between 1973 and 1980, then worked in the culture directorate of the Ministry of Information. He edited a literary journal, and his work, translated into several languages, has received numerous Arab prizes.

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• PoetryالبشارةQassim Haddad · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature