Jazra KhaleedJazra Khaleed (born in Chechnya, 1979) is a poet, translator, and filmmaker. He is a Greek citizen and lives in Athens; he writes exclusively in Greek. His works are an indictment of fascism, social injustice, police brutality, and racism in contempoary Greece. His debut collection, was published in 2016, and his recent collection, (but is this poetry?), was published in 2020. His poems have been widely translated for publications in Europe, the US, Australia, and Asia, and have appeared in The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, World Literature Today, and other publications. As a founding editor of the Athenian poetry magazine Teflon, and particularly through his own translations published there, he has introduced to a Greek readership the works of Amiri Baraka, Keston Sutherland, Etel Adnan, among many other American, British, Australian, Arab and German-language political and experimental poets. His short films have been screened at festivals such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA), Experiments in Cinema (USA), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland), Kasseler Dokfest (Germany), Entrevues Belfort (France), L'Alternativa (Spain) among others. The film rendition of his poem about the immigrant situation, "The Aegean or the Anus of Death," won prizes at the Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, the Zebra Poetry Film Festival, and the Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival. Read More Read Less