I'm a poet, writer, translator and editor as well as a secondary English school teacher with a passion for multilingualism in the classroom. I am one of the inaugural Manchester Multilingual City Poets (2022 post).

I am a member of Young Identity and have received mentorship from New Writing North and Commonword. My 'Between Two Islands' arts project was funded by Arts Council England in 2020-2021. I have written for Harper Collins school anthologies/textbooks and also conduct workshops.javascript:Save(0);

Organisations I've worked closely with include the Manchester Poetry Library, ArabLit.org, Harper Collins, Young Identity and Liverpool Arab Arts Festival.

My full portfolio is regularly updated on alialjamri.com/about.

Published Poems – Al-Usra wal-Sufra: Family and Feasts (Arabic, English) commissioned for Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, July 2022 – In Prisms of Knowledge, commissioned for the Manchester Festival of Libraries, June 2022 – ‘?? ??? ??? ??????‘ commission for the Manchester Festival of Libraries, June 2022 – Comes the sea… in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Issue 7, December 2021 – Two Poems in Harana Issue 9, 2021: Invitations were sent, but no one came | The male line – Prophecy and Prayers, in Bahr Issue 1, 2021 – RAQABIYYA, Or Neck Tax, in Ecosystems of Fury – The Scalpel and the Sledgehammers – Myth Restoration (Anthology), Young Identity, 2021 – Adrift Along the Moonbeam, in Between Two Islands, 2021 – The Milled-Up Years, in Zindabad Issue 1, 2021 – The Invention of Rational Economic Man, in Consilience Issue 3, 2020 – Translation: “The Desire of Life”, in Modern Poetry in Translation 3/2020 – After The Last Edition, in Peterloo Poems by Manchester People, 2019 – More translations and poems published informally on Instagram

Translations – ‘The Desire of Fish‘ – a Bahrani satire of The Desire of Life, in ArabLit Quarterly: THE JOKE (Summer 2022) – Are You the Moon Itself? by Ghazi Al-Haddad, March 2022 – ArabLit Quarterly: FOLK (Winter 2021) — guest edited. Credits include translation of Mariam Qahtani’s Heavensent Huriyya (prose), and translations/essay Have You Seen Afifa, Have You Seen Latifa?, and the translation of one folk poem in two versions, Waddle Like A Duck. – The Desire of Life by Abu Al-Qassim Al-Shabbi in Modern Poetry in Translation, 3/2020

Poetry Productions, Performances and Events – In Prisms of Knowledge, June 2022 – ArabLit Quarterly: FOLK LAUNCH, January 2022 – Between Two Islands: Live at Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, October 2021 – The Future: A Between Two Islands Soundscape, October 2021 – Knowing the Self: Diaspora and Identity through Arabic Poetry, with Huda Fakhraddine and the Manchester Poetry Library), September 2021 – Between Two Islands Launch, March 2021 – The Stories We Thread, Manchester City of Literature and Manchester Poetry Library, World Poetry Day 2021 – Resistance Is My Mother Tongue, with Young Identity, International Mother Language Day 2021

Significant Projects – Al-Usra wal-Sufra – workshops with Arab children in the North West and doll house display for exhibitions. A Liverpool Arab Arts Festival / Manchester City of Literature-funded project. – Between Two Islands – Six workshops with the Bahraini community in Britain, culminating in an anthology and two events. Co-produced with Amina Atiq. An Arts Council England-funded project.

Other Works – Through Our Eyes KS4 Anthology Teacher Pack, Harper Collins, 2022 – Contributing Author – Who We Are KS3 Anthology Teacher Pack: 25 brilliant texts to enrich your KS3 English curriculum, Harper Collins, 2021 – Contributing Author

Articles – Interview: Mariam Qahtani on the Slow Process of Building in ‘Of Love and Isolation’, in ArabLit (2022) – Between Two Islands: How British Bahrainis Found A Home In Poetry, in Middle East Eye (2021) – Remembering Ghazi Al-Haddad, in ArabLit (2021)