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Omar Sabbagh is a very widely-published poet, writer and critic.  Born in 1981 in London to Lebanese parents, after a stellar school career at KCS Wimbledon, he went on to study PPE at Oxford University from 1999-2002.  From 2003-2004 he completed an MA in English Literature at KCL, achieving a high Distinction and coming 3^rd in a class of 55.  After beginning a PhD in English Literature at Cambridge in 2005, and having resigned from it for personal reasons, from 2006-2007 he completed a second MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmith’s College, University of London.  Half-way through that (second) MA, he also and once again began PhD research at KCL, completing a passing thesis on Time and Narrative in Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford in early 2011.  His first full-time job was as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at the American University of Beirut (AUB) (where his own parents met), from 2011-2013.  From 2013-2014 he completed a third MA in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London.  In Fall of 2014 he began as an Assistant Professor of English at the American University in Dubai (AUD), where he still teaches at present, but now as an Associate Professor of English