Bahraini poets

Tarafa (Arabic: طرفة بن العبد بن سفيان بن سعد أبو عمرو البكري الوائلي‎ / ALA-LC: Ṭarafah ibn al-‘Abd ibn Sufyān ibn Sa‘d Abū ‘Amr al-Bakrī al-Wā’ilī), was a 6th century Arabian poet of the tribe of the Bakr. He is one of the seven poets of the most celebrated anthology of ancient Arabic poetry, known as the Mo'allakat, however just one of his poems is included. His fellow poets preserved in this work are Al-Nabigha, Antarah ibn Shaddad, Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma, 'Alqama ibn 'Abada and Imru' al-Qais.

Mullah Attiya al-Jamri (Arabic: الملا عطية الجمري‎, b. 1899 – 29 August 1981) was a Bahraini khatib and poet.

Adel Khozam is an Emirati poet and a weekly columnist in Al Ittihad Newspaper. He has worked in the UAE press since the 1980s.

Qassim Haddad (born 1948) is a Bahraini poet, particularly notable within the Arab world for his free verse poetry. His poems have been translated in several languages including German, English and French.

Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh (Arabic: إبراهيم العريّض‎, born 8 March 1908 – died May 2002) was a Bahraini writer and poet, generally considered to be one of Bahrain's greatest poets and one of the leaders of the Bahraini literary movement in the 20th century.

Ali Al Jallawi (in Arabic علي الجلاوي born in 1975 in Manama, Bahrain) is a poet, researcher, and writer. After two periods of imprisonment for writing poetry critical of the political regime in Bahrain, Al Jallawi has gone on to publish seven volumes of his work, most recently Tashta’il karazat nahd, 2008. He has written books on the Baha’i and Jewish communities in Bahrain, and presented his poetry at dozens of literary festivals both in the Arab world and elsewhere. In Manama, he ran a research center dedicated to raising awareness of Bahrain's minority communities. However, during the Bahraini uprising, he fled the country to avoid further imprisonment. The PEN committee organized a literary fellowship in Weimar for him to save him a lengthy application for political asylum in Germany. By May 2012, he was still living in Germany, now as a fellow of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. He is currently working on a novel titled Yadallah's Shoes.

Ali Al Shargawi (Arabic: علي الشرقاوي‎) is a leading Bahraini poet, lyricist and playwright whose work has been translated into English, German, Bulgarian, Russian, Kurdish, and French. Born in Manama in 1948, he started publishing his poetry in 1968, and quickly gained prominence in Arab newspapers and magazines.

Amin Saleh (1950) (Arabic:أمين صالح) is a Bahraini author, scriptwriter, poet, journalist, and translator. He translated many global literary and cinematic works to Arabic. He wrote about 20 screenplays for TV series and seven scripts for film dramas. His 1990 movie, Al Hajez or "The Barrier" was the first long film in Bahrain. In 2007, Saleh was honored with Bahraini Medal First Degree from his highness the King of Bahrain.

Parween Habib (Arabic: بروين حبيب‎, October 19, 1969 (age 51)) is a Bahraini journalist and poet who hosts the weekly talk show Helw Elkalam on Dubai TV. She also presents the weekly talk show We Meet Parween Habib on the same channel.

Fatima Ahmad al-Taytun (born 1962) is a Bahraini poet.