Born in Algeria in 1968, Amari Hamadene has publication credits in magazines and anthologies in France, Belgium and in Switzerland, such as Phreatique, Le Jardin d'Essai, Parages, Hauteurs, Estuaires, Archipel and Bleu d'Encre. Editor's Note: in March 2005, Amari Hamadene was implicated in a plagiarism controversy over poems that had begun appearing in English from late 2004. By April 2005, A.T. van 't Hof, who had first discovered the case, concluded: "I have been in contact with the ‘real’ Amari Hamadene. He claims to be innocent and assumes that somebody else must have published under his name. I regard this case as closed." As far as can be ascertained, the Amari Hamadene poem published on QLRS is an original piece.

• Poetry : The Storks of Algiers

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