Samuel Shimon is an Iraqi writer and journalist. In 1998, he founded with his wife Margaret Obank the quarterly literary magazine Banipal which focuses on the translation of Arabic literature into English. In 2005 he published his first novel An Iraqi in Paris to great success and subsequently translated into several languages. Shimon currently resides in the British capital London.
From the idea of a house that opens its door to the cultures and sciences of the peoples, to the house whose owner used to write and gather what happens in the place and outside it … the house of Abdullah Al Zayed was the first to found journalism in Bahrain with a modern press and library. He was also the first to open a cinema. He was the only editor who worked passionately to publish the weekly Bahrain Newspaper, and even encouraged aspirants to write about literature and culture.
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