Tomás Al-Rashid is a Spanish-Iraqi writer and interpreter born in 1985 in Sevilla and raised between Andalucía and Basra. He studied Arabic and journalism at the Universidad de Granada and worked as a fixer and translator for international reporters in Iraq from 2007 to 2011, later coordinating community health projects on Lesbos and in Idomeni. His essays have appeared in El País Semanal, The Guardian, and Revista 5W, and he was a finalist for the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Award.
He is the author of the essay chapbook Maps We Carry (2019) and the photo-text exhibition Borrowed Light, shown at La Casa Encendida in Madrid. Tomás Al-Rashid teaches narrative non-fiction workshops, splits his time between Lavapiés and Cádiz, and volunteers with a neighborhood mutual aid network. He speaks Spanish, Arabic, and English, and is currently developing a radio series on objects that outlive wars.
