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Nasser Hajjaj (Nasser Mehyi Hajjaj ناصر محي الحجاج b. 14 August 1970) is an Iraqi American poet, writer, journalist and university professor and researcher. Born in Basra, Iraq and a citizen of the United State since 2006. As a public intellectual and cultural critic, Hajjaj is well known for his contribution to the field of Arabic Culturology where he published his book “Sayyab: The Identity of Iraqi Poetry” Arabic السياب: هوية الشعر العراقي

Early Life:
Nasser Hajjaj was born on 14 August 1970 in a village called Shalhat El Hijjaj 90 km northern Basra province. He finished his primary, middle and high school in Huwair. Hajjaj publish his first poem when he was 15 years old in Arrasid newspaper. He was exiled to Damascus, 1991 then to Beirut 1992 where he persuaded his study of Arabic Linguistics at the College of Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Lebanese University.

Publications

 * Identity of Iraqi Poetry/ Al Sayyab, Beirut 2012 السيّاب: هوية الشعر العراقي
 * Crazy Prophecy, Poems, Beirut, Lebanon, 1998 نبوءة مجنونة، مجموعة شعرية
 * Reading Arabic, Windsor, Canada 2004, coauthor القراءة العربية، تأليف مشترك
 * Trojan Dogs, Poems, Beirut, Lebanon 2018 كلاب طروادة، مجموعة شعرية.