Mwaffaq Al-Hajjar

Mwaffaq Al-Hajjar is an independent Syrian writer, artist and researcher, based in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia. He holds an MA degree in Comparative Literature from Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. His research focuses on literariness, spatiality, and aesthetics in traditional and modern Arabic literature and Comparative Literature in Arabic, English, French, Malay and Persian languages. Mwaffaq writes in a number of literary and cultural magazines and had published two poetry collections titled “Poetic Entropy, 2019” and “A City in Debt, A Hole in the Head, 2024” in addition to participating in other literary anthologies. Mwaffaq is the founder of Shirwmir Magazine, a digital platform for contemporary Arabic poetry. He was the winner of the Poetry Prize for Migrants in Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia in 2017, and he’s been participating as a writer and panelist in several literary festivals in Malaysia, Singapore, Qatar and Australia.