Isa Hasan al-Yasiri

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Abstract is: Isa Hasan al-Yasiri (Arabic: عيسى حسن الياسري, romanized: ʻĪsá Ḥasan al-Yāsirī; born 1942) is an Iraqi-Canadian poet. He was born in a village in southern Iraq, located near the town of Al-Kumait in the Maysan Governorate. He completed his primary education between the village school and Al-Kumait school, and intermediate and higher education in the Teachers' House in Al-Amarah. After graduating, he worked in education, radio and literary journalism. Among his generation, Al-Yasiri is distinguished in his poetry and personal life for exclusivity and independence from the Iraqi Ba'athist authority. He left his country in the fall of 1998, and lived in Jordan for two and a half years before arriving in Canada at the beginning of 2001 and moving to Montreal. He has published approximately eight poetry collections, beginning in 1973.

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