Ahmed Abdul Hussein is a poet and a journalist born in Baghdad in 1966. He published his first poem in at-Tali’a Al-Adabiyya magazine in 1982. He was the editor-in-chief of a number of poetry journals. He worked as a cultural editor for many newspapers. He published his first collection of poems in Arabic, Painful Creeds Part 1, (1999). Other poetry books were published later, Paradise of Nothingness (2007), Painful Creeds (2009), Part 2, Nor Thirst Ends, Neither Does the Fountain (2014), and A Proof Concerning the Falsehood of the World (2016). In 2007, he won Dubai Prize for Poetry, and the German 'East-West' Prize. He participated in international festivals, such as Sleep Song (2011) in Paris. He also wrote dozens of articles and cultural studies in various Iraqi and Arab literary journals. Khalida H. Tisgam: An Iraqi bilingual translator and assistant professor in the Department of English, College of Education for Women, University of Baghdad. She translated 17 books in different fields such as: The Biography of T. S. Eliot, 1998; Structuralism & Deconstruction, 2002. The Critical Circle: Literature, History and Philosophical Hermeneutics, 2005. The Age of Hermeneutics, 2014. The Blur of Mirrors: On Culture and Cultural Theory, 2016. The Carnival in Popular Culture, 2017. From the Bottom of Hell: On the Essence of Poetry, 2021. She also translated and published dozens of articles, book reviews, interviews and studies (in philosophy, cultural studies, literary criticism, poetry, art, mysticism). She was awarded the Science-Day Award 2017, and The Iraqi Creativity Award in 2021.