Mahmoud Al Zayed

Mahmoud Al-Zayed, a researcher, translator and writer, was born in Tayyibat al-Imam, a small town northern Hama, Syria where he was educated before he moved to Homs in 2006 to study English Literature at Al-Ba’ath University. In 2011, he travelled to New Delhi, India, to pursue his higher studies. He holds a PhD in English with specialisation in English and Comparative Literature. In 2020, after staying several months in Amman, Jordan, he moved to Berlin where he is now works and writes.

Cartographies of Absence marks his debut in making his poetry public, which have been in the remnants of his private space since long. As an academic scholar, he works on anticolonial and postcolonial theories and on aesthetics and ethics and philosophies of liberation from the Global South.