Ali Bader
Ali Bader is an award-winning Iraqi novelist, essayist, and playwright whose works have been translated into over twenty languages. He is the author of more than twenty novels, including Papa Sartre, The Tobacco Keeper, and Running after the Wolves. His writing explores themes of identity, exile, cultural conflict, and modernity in the Arab world. He currently serves as Publishing Director at Alca Books, an independent Iraqi publishing house founded in 2015, and works closely with Al Mada publishing group.