AUTHOR PROFILE

Name: A.ZAAK

Gender: Male

Birth year: 1960

Region / Location: Melbourne

Country: Australia

About Me

The author, Ali Al-Zaak, is a Professor of Microbiology and a bilingual writer of ‎‎13 literary books, including a poetry collection. His scientific background often ‎lends his work a precise and observational quality, evident in the clinical yet ‎emotional evaluation of "decay" and "codes". He is a winner of the ‎Booksie Poetry Grand Prize 2025.‎

AUTHOR’S STORIES

The Lamp By A.Zaak

Blending ancient Eastern motifs with modern Silicon technology. The story visualises ‎the parasitic nature of the modern lamp, your smartphone, as it extracts biological ‎telomeric energy through the screen, transforming human "Likes" and time into a

Aladdin's Magic Lamp By A.Zaak

While the Aladdin myth is often draped in the silk of wish-fulfillment, this story seeks ‎the copper beneath the skin. It reimagines the classic Arabian Nights through the lens ‎of biological revulsion and temporal paradox.

The Last Heavy Man‎ By A.Zaak

A message about the essential value of density, physicality, and groundedness in a ‎world increasingly seduced by the abstract, the digital, and the purely luminous. True ‎anchoring is quiet and selfless. It is holding reality together for others so

Architects of Light By A.Zaak

‎ Surrender is not giving up. It is the first, silent stroke of the architect's ‎hand. This poem is about a different kind of power, not the fist or the ‎command, but the open palm. ‎

You may consider me a Semite By A.Zaak

The university canteen is now filled with vibrant natural light streaming through ‎large floor-to-ceiling windows. The woman is enjoying her lunch amidst ‎her "Australian Literature" textbooks. The man’s approach is illuminated by the ‎warm, clear gl

The Booksie 2025 Poetry Winner By A.Zaak

The poem “More Than Just Growing Older” won the Grand Prize in the Booksie 2025 Poetry Contest, earning the author the title of Booksie Gold Laureate.

An Andalusian (re)shape By A.Zaak

Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. Historians use the term for the former Islamic states in modern Spain, Portugal and France.

The songbird and his elegist mother By A.Zaak

After a few months, Bulbul was captured by the Iranians in the north sector of the front while he was singing.

Dragons of creative chaos By A.Zaak

The Enuma Elish (also known as The Seven Tablets of Creation) is the Babylonian creation myth whose title is derived from the opening lines of the piece, "When on High."

Losing the magic ring By A.Zaak

On the 20th anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom

Hammurabi code and the Laws of Eshnunna By A.Zaak

(By the time she travelled into the underworld carrying her Lapis Lazuli rods measuring time and the length of a person's life, the journey of faith continued in the desert by the early grass).

From UR to Babylon By A.Zaak

(I was surprised to know that the classy woman in the crowd next to me was King Hammurabi's sister, offering date cakes for the masses of Babylon).

In Sippar, on the journey of faith By A.Zaak

(It was around the mid-second millennium BC. Our leader, the righteous idol-breaker, was in his seventies, full of determination and strong faith in God).

A fictional biography of lieutenant Aya By A.Zaak

How could a cynical poet woman become an Army officer?

The man who won all lottery draws By A.Zaak

This story cost me $45 to write between the fiction of winning and the song at the end.

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