Minutes from the Miracle City

Omar Sabbagh is a widely published prose and poetry writer and academic. Over the last two decades, his poetry has appeared in Poetry Review, PN Review, Agenda, Acumen, The Reader Magazine, Stand, New England Review, Banipal, The Warwick Review, The Wolf Magazine, and Poetry Wales. He has a number of poetry collections and novellas published. He holds a BA in PPE from Oxford, three MAs, in English Literature, Creative and Life Writing, and Philosophy, all from the University of London, and a Ph.D in English Literature from KCL. From Fall 2024 he began a new teaching role at the Lebanese American University (LAU).Omar lives in Dubai, but also spends time in London, England.

'A cast of vivid characters, whose interlocking fortunes and fascinatingly detailed lives create a compelling story' -Fiona Sampson, MBE FRSL, poet and writer'Sabbagh situates his prose and the reader in a space where we each rehearse our failures and perhaps, our small victories' -Peter Salmon, author of The Coffee Story'Sabbagh captures the restless, cosmopolitan spirit of Dubai through a perceptive, touching and often comic narrative in which the dreams and dramas of several disparate and engagingly drawn characters are intertwined. An original, upbeat and entertaining read' -Susannah Tarbush, journalist, reviewer and bloggerOmar Sabbagh is an extraordinary writer - intelligent, witty, sharp-eyed and compassionate' -Dr Jan Fortune, Cinnamon Press