Ahmad Yamani (Arabic: أحمد يماني) (born Cairo, 1970) is an Egyptian poet and translator. He graduated from Cairo University in 1992 and got his Phd in Arabic philology from Complutense University in Madrid. He now lives in Spain where he works at the broadcaster RTVE.[1]
He has published several books of poetry in Arabic and one in his adopted language Spanish. In 2010, he was named as one of the Beirut39, a selection of the best young writers in the Arab world. Yamani has translated numerous Spanish writers into Arabic, among them José Ángel Valente, Rubén Darío, César Vallejo, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Miguel Casado, Rosendo Tello, Ángel Guinda, Agustín Porras, and Roberto Bolaño.