Ali Al-Jamri

Bahraini writer and poet

Ali Al-Jamri is a Bahraini writer and poet based in the UK. He was one of three inaugural Manchester Multilingual City Poets, 2022-2024 In this role he was commissioned to translate RoundView poems into Arabic, working with a team of multi-lingual poets and researchers at the University of Manchester. He is a member of Young Identity and mentored by Commonword, BBC Words First 2020 semi-finalist, and new Writing North Arabic Translation mentee, 2021. He is currently working on an Arts Council England-funded project: The Legend of the Loom: The Weavers’ Debate.

He has translated RoundView poems into Arabic. He has worked with the team on developing our understanding of poetry as pedagogy and how multi-lingual poetry helps us to learn.