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Yusuf Al-Ani
Salaam Yousif received his BA in English from the University of Baghdad, Iraq, and his Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa, USA. He teaches literature at California State University, San Bernardino. He has published articles on Iraqi culture and literature and translated contemporary Iraqi poems into English, including Iraqi poet Jamal Juma’s collection Letters to My Brother: A Handshake in the Dark, which was set to music as a choral piece by Michael Nyman and premiered by the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra in 2007.