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Haifa Zangana

Haifa Zangana (born 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi writer, painter, and political activist, known for her novel Women on a Journey: Between Baghda...

Muhsin al-Ramli

Muhsin Al-Ramli (Arabic: محسن الرملي, officially known as Muhisin Mutlak Rodhan; born 7 March 1967) is an expatriate Iraqi writer living in Madrid, Sp...

Hassan Massoudy

Hassan Massoudy was born in Najaf, Iraq. He moved to France in 1969, where he studied at L’École des Beaux-Arts. Considered to be one of the greatest ...

Nizar Abd al-Sattar

نزار عبد الستّار قاصّ وروائيّ عراقيّ، حاز جوائز عدة منها ’جائزة الإبداع‘ وهي أرفع جائزة رسميّة عراقيّة. عمل في الصّحافة وعُيّن مديراً للتحرير في جريدة...

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

ArabLit, ArabLit Quarterly, and ALQ Books are a translator-centered collective that produces a website, quarterly magazine...

Salima Salih

Salima Salih (Arabic: سالمة صالح; born 1942) is an Iraqi short story writer, translator, and artist, from the city of Mosul. She is well known for her...

Fouad al-Tikerly

Fouad al-Tikerly (Arabic: فؤاد التكرلي; August 22, 1927 – February 11, 2008) was a prominent Iraqi novelist and writer, best known for his groundbreak...

Ali Yass

Ali Yass is a painter and filmmaker. His work entangles personal and collective memory in its interrogation of power within the re...

Ali Bader

Ali Bader (Arabic علي بدر) is an Iraqi novelist and a script writer, regarded as the most significant writer to emerge in Arabic world in the last dec...

Abd al-Sattar Nasir

عبد الستار ناصر جدوع الزوبعي (1947-2013) هو كاتب وقاص عراقي، ولد في محلة الطاطران البغدادية، كان مدير تحرير مجلة التراث الشعبي البغدادية، ويُعد أحد كت...

Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi

Dr Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi Al-Rifai was born in Baghdad and spent her childhood in Iraq and Lebanon. Her grandmother initiated her into the cult...

Balkis Sharara

بلقيس شرارة هي كاتبة وروائية من العراق، ولدت سنة 1933م في مدينة النجف. حياتها ونشأتها تنتمي بلقيس شرارة إلى أسرة لبنانية الأصل استقرت في النجف العر...

Ali Eyal

Ali Eyal, (Arabic: علي عيّال) (born April 28, 1994) Is an Iraqi visual artist and he's currently based in Los Angeles who works internationally. His w...

Khalid Kaki

شاعر وقاص وفنان تشكيلي ومصمّم وعازف عود ومؤلف موسيقيّ. ولدَ في كركوك في العراق عام 1971 درس الأدب واللغة الأسبانية في جامعة بغداد وتخرج منها عام 1992،...

Amrou Al-Kadhi

Amrou Al-Kadhi (born 23 June 1990) is a British-Iraqi writer, drag performer, and filmmaker whose work primarily focuses on queer identity, cultural r...

Rowayat

In 2012, Rowayat روايات launched as a literary journal platforming the hybrid writer, focusing on E...

Jawad al-Assadi

Jawad al-Assadi is an Iraqi theater director, playwright, theater researcher and poet. Al-Assadi was born on January 12, 1947, in Karbala. While still...

Luay Hamza Abbas

Luay Hamza Abbas (born 1965) is an Iraqi writer. He now teaches literary criticism at Basra University. Abbas has published several volumes of short s...

Faleeha Hassan

Faleeha Hassan (born 1967) is an Iraqi poet living in New Jersey. Early life and education Hassan was born and raised in Najaf. She was a precociou...

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Haifa Zangana

Haifa Zangana (born 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi writer, painter, and political activist, known for her novel Women on a Journey: Between Baghda...

Muhsin al-Ramli

Muhsin Al-Ramli (Arabic: محسن الرملي, officially known as Muhisin Mutlak Rodhan; born 7 March 1967) is an expatriate Iraqi writer living in Madrid, Sp...