Even after three decades of Parisian exile, the Iraqi poet and publicist ͑Abd al-Qādir al-Ganabi (Abdul Kader El Janabi) (b. 1944) still deserves greater attention in the West, both by scholars and critics as well as the broader public: not only because he is the self-appointed “heir” of Surrealism in the Arab world or due to his role as a provocative and iconoclastic agitator against Arab-Islamic culture and society, but also because he is a remarkable avant-garde poet and a charismatic initiator of literary and artistic projects. As the first approach to look at al-Ganabi’s (El Janabi) thought and work from the intertwined aspects of content, expression, and reception, this study gives a fascinating picture of this incomparable enfant terrible of modern Arabic literature.