Career
He participated in Iraq's avant-garde Sixties Generation, and his early controversial work was lauded with great enthusiasm. He holds a BA in English Literature from Baghdad University, however Fadhil soon left Iraq in 1976, as the Baathist-controlled regime was becoming increasingly powerful. He later earned a doctorate in communications studies from Leipzig University.
He has worked as a freelance journalist and translator for Arab newspapers and cultural reviews. He also founded the poetry magazine Shi’r 69. He currently resides in Berlin, where he works as a full-time writer.
