ʻAllāq, ʻAlī Jaʻfar

Ali Ja'far al-Allaq (Arabic: علي جعفر العلاق, romanized: ʻAlī Jaʻfar al-ʻAllāq; born 1945) is an Iraqi poet, literary critic and academic. He graduated from the universities of Al-Mustansiriya in 1973, and Exeter in 1984. He held many administrative and academic positions, and wrote several collections of poetry and important critical studies, which had an important role in the modern Iraqi poetic movement.