Person

Badraḫān, ʿAbd-al-Karīm

1986

Syrian poet, translator and critic. Starting his career in February 2006, he published three poetry collections, and translated several books from English into Arabic. Also, he published articles, critical studies and translations in several Arabic newspapers and magazines. Baderkhan decided to leave Syria in 2013 due to security reasons. He lived in Egypt first, then moved to Turkey where he worked in the humanitarian field. He moved to Norway in November 2015, and he is still living there as a political refugee.