Abboud Aljabiri is a poet and translator from Iraq. A former columnist for the Azzaman and Alarab newspapers in London, he has had seven poetry collections published in Arabic, and his poems have been translated into languages including English, Persian, Spanish and Turkish. One of his poems, 'Fading', was set to music by the British composer Joanna Marsh and sung by groups including the BBC Singers, and he has also been featured in the Poetry Translation Centre, based in London.