Mohamad Bitari
Mohamad Bitari is a Palestinian-Syrian poet, translator, writer and journalist. He was born in 1990 in the Palestinian refugee camp in Yarmouk, Syria. He studied in the Department of Hispanic Philology and Dramaturgy at Damascus University. In 2011, when the revolution in Syria began, he documented human rights violations in the southern neighbourhoods of the Syrian capital. He escaped from the intelligence services to Beirut. In 2013, he went to Spain and moved to Catalonia, where he studied Arabic and Hebrew Studies at the University of Barcelona. For the past eight years, he has written for various Arab newspapers, magazines and websites. He authored numerous articles on the history of Catalonia and its cultural specificity, and translated Spanish and Catalan poets. Currently, he is part of the Council of Catalan PEN Writers Persecuted: Bitari works as an Arabic teacher and as a translator of Catalan and Spanish literature. His latest book was published in 2019: Jo soc vosaltres: sis poetes de Síria (I am you: six poets of Syria).