Amir Al-Azraki is an Arab-Canadian playwright, literary translator, Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner, Associate Professor of Arabic language, literature and culture, and Coordinator of the Studies in Islamic and Arab Cultures Program. Among his plays are The Mug, and The Widow. He is the translator of Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary, author of The Discourse of War in Contemporary Theatre (in Arabic), and co-editor and co-translator of Contemporary Plays from Iraq (in English). He has translated numerous poems by female poets from Arabic to English.