Full name Karim Katea Abdullah Al-Akeili but he uses pen name as Karim Abdullah. And he lives in Iraq – Baghdad. As he has Diploma in Public Health, so he works as Psychological Rehabilitation Therapist. Also he is member of the General Union of Writers and Authors in Iraq.

So far he has published Diwan (Love in a Time of Exile) – 2013; Diwan (Love and Myth) – 2014; Diwan Nayat Al-Wajd (joint collection) – 2014; Diwan (Gray Pain and the Palm of a Virgin) – 2015 & 2018; Diwan (Baghdad in its New guise) - 2015 & 2018; Diwan (Pictures of You Bathing Naked behind Velvet Curtains) – 2016; Diwan (Streets menstruate, wiping the shoes of invasion) – 2016; Diwan (Lumbering Stares with Your Wet Pictures) in Arabic & Spanish – 2017. Furthermore, his complete works has also been published in two volumes in 2021. Moreover, Love about Darmten – 2021; Hamrat Schwarzkopf’s collection of poems – 2021. Also, the collection (The Orange Lily) is a joint collection with the Palestinian poet – Rahma Annab – 2021.

Besides poetry, Abdullah has published plays: Diwan Sotiank Al-Ahmar – 2021; Karim Abdullah’s book and psychodrama – 2017; Psychodrama plays – 2019. And, he has written more than a dozen playwrights. Also, he filmed and directed dozens of plays and documentaries.

In addition, his novels are: Betrayal in the Circles of the Mind – 2021; What Sisyphus Didn’t Say in His Crazy Memoirs – 2022. Presently, he has manuscript of 4 novels in his hand. The Fruits of Psychosis; The Last Jewish Shuhit; Al-Idbara; and The Journey of the Mad Traveler.

Kareem has also published many books of criticism.

Also, he translated his poetic works into English, Spanish, French, Italian, Taiwanese, Portuguese, Greek, Bengali, Hindi, Persian, and Kurdish.