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Khalid al-Maaly, born in as-Samawa, Iraq in 1956 is a leading Arab writer, poet and publisher.

Khalid al-Maaly derives from a Bedouin family. In 1979, after Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq, he left his home country and fled to France. In 1980 he came to Germany and was accepted as a political refugee. Since 1996 he is a German citizen. He has published seven books of poetry in German, as well as in Arabic, and translated other Arab poets into German. From Cologne, Germany, where he currently lives, he wrote along with Mona Naggar in German a "Lexicon of Arab Authors in the 19th and 20th Centuries." More recently, he gained attention for an essay in the Berliner Zeitung on the dual nature of Arab intellectuals, in which he suggests that many leading thinkers display differing attitudes on issues like human rights and foreign policy before Western and domestic audiences.

Al-Maaly is member of the German authors' association. He received several prizes for his opus in Germany.

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