A Syrian writer and poet who has lived in Paris since 1985, he was born in Hasakah Governorate in 1956.
Like many young Arabs, he moved to Beirut in the late 1970s, fleeing the repression of the Ba'ath regime at the time and seeking political freedom in Lebanon. He initially worked in the Palestinian press, which was active at the time, until the Israeli invasion of Beirut forced the leadership of the PLO and its media, in which he was an active member, to emigrate to Tunis and then to Paris. He settled and worked as editor-in-chief of Al-Araby Al-Jadeed magazine and co-founded the House of Poetry in Abu Dhabi.
He became editor-in-chief of Syria TV in 2019 before devoting himself to writing. He won the Arab Journalism Award (2008).
Al-Baker has published several poetry collections. His poems have been translated into French, English, and Turkish.
In politics, Al-Baker has published two books: "The Tribe Triumphs Over the Homeland" and "Al-Qaeda in Yemen and Saudi Arabia." At the end of 2022, he released "Biographies of Others," which includes biographies of a large number of Syrian and Arab writers, authors, and thinkers with whom Al-Baker had previously met.
