Yasir Abdel Baqi
Yasir Abdel Baqi (born 1972) is a Yemeni novelist, screenwriter, journalist and author.[1] He was born in Aden and studied history and antiquities at university. His first book of short stories was called Ahlam (Dreams) followed by a collection called Night Woman. His controversial novel Zahavar appeared in 2008.[2]
More recently, Abdel Baqi has written his first screenplay Waheedah.[3] He has also contributed to a stage play called Red Card that was presented by the theatre group Gulf of Aden in 2010.[4]
Abdel Baqi's work has appeared in translation in English and Italian. His short story "Pullman #99" has featured in two foreign-language anthologies: Oranges in the Sun (2007) and Perle dello Yemen (2009). He was also one of the Yemeni authors presented in an issue of Banipal magazine devoted to contemporary Yemeni literature.[5]
Abdel Baqi is an editor of the Aden-based magazine Al-Manara, an organ of the Yemen Writers' Union.