Sadek Mohammed (Iraq, IWP 2014, Visitor 2017), poet, scholar and translator, is the author of the collection [Archeology of Scorched Cities] (2013) and the co-editor of Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq (2008, IPPY/Independent Publisher Book Award) and Ishtar's Songs: Iraqi Poetry since the 1970s (2011), of which he was the translator. Mohammed has translated writers including Maya Angelou, W. B. Yeats, Arthur Rimbaud, Sergey Yesenin, Osip Mandelstam, Elena Urlova and Mochamed Achmedov into Arabic, and many Iraqi poets into English. He is a Professor of English at the University of Mustansiriya and Director of the Baghdad UNESCO City of Literature.