Writers from Baghdad

The list Writers from Baghdad includes Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati, Rifat Chadirji, Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, Alia Mamdouh and Zainab Salbi. The list consists of 106 members.

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Baghdad

Capital of Iraq

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Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati

Poet

Overview: Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati (December 19, 1926 – August 3, 1999) was an Iraqi poet. He was a pioneer in his field and defied conventional forms of poetry that had been common for centuries.

Date of birth: 19 December 1926

Date of death: 3 August 1999

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Poet

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Members of the Union of Iraqi Writers 4T

20th-century Iraqi poets 66T

Arabic-language poets 61T
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Jim Al-Khalili

English physicist

Overview: Jameel Sadik "Jim" Al-Khalili OBE FRS FInstP (born 20 September 1962) is a British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement ...

Date of birth: 20 September 1962

Age: 62

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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Iraqi people of English descent 2T

People educated at Priory School, Portsmouth 4T

Quantum biology 11T
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Hind Kamel

Iraqi, Film Director

Overview: Hind Kamel (Arabic; هند كامل) is an Iraqi actress and film director now residing in Jordan.

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Female

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20th-century Iraqi actresses 8T

Iraqi film actresses 7T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T
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Rifat Chadirji

Iraqi architect

Overview: Rifat Chadirji (also known as Rifa'at Al Chaderchi Arabic: رفعت الجادرجي‎) was born on December 6, 1926 in Baghdad, is an Iraqi architect, photographer, author and activist. He is admired as the ...

Date of birth: 1926

Date of death: 10 April 2020

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Architect

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Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in England 73T

Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in London 16T

2020 deaths 11,737T
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Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi

Iraqi poet and philosopher

Overview: Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (Arabic: جميل صدقي الزهاوي‎, Jamīl Ṣidqī al-Zahāwī; 17 June 1863 – January 1936) was a prominent Iraqi poet and philosopher. He is regarded as one of the greatest contemporary ...

Date of birth: 1863

Date of death: 1936

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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19th-century writers in Ottoman Iraq 2T

Members of Iraqi Academy of Sciences 4T

19th-century poets of Ottoman Iraq 17T
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Alia Mamdouh

Iraqi writer

Overview: Alia Mamdouh also spelled Aliyah Mamduh (born 1944) is an Iraqi novelist, author and journalist living in exile in Paris, France. She won the 2004 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for her novel The ...

Date of birth: 1944

Age: 80

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Recipients of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 16T

Al-Mustansiriya University alumni 15T

Iraqi emigrants to France 7T
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Zainab Salbi

Iraqi-American writer and activist

Overview: Zainab Salbi (Arabic: زينب سلبي; born 1969) is an Iraqi women's rights activist, writer, and public speaker. She is the Founder of Women for Women International, author of several books, and host of Through ...

Date of birth: 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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American writers of Iraqi descent 6T

Arab-American feminists 7T

Women humanitarians 230T
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Nazik Al-Malaika

Iraqi poet

Overview: Nazik al-Malaika (Arabic: نازك الملائكة‎; 23 August 1923 – 20 June 2007) was an Iraqi female poet and is considered by many to be one of the most influential contemporary Iraqi poets. Al-Malaika ...

Date of birth: 23 August 1923

Date of death: 20 June 2007

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni 651T

21st-century Iraqi poets 38T

20th-century Iraqi poets 66T
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Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz

Iraqi politician

Overview: Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz (Arabic: عبد الرحمن البزاز; l20 February 1913– 28 June 1973) was a politician, reformist, and writer. He was a pan-Arab nationalist and served as the Dean of Baghdad Law College ...

Date of birth: 1913

Date of death: 1973

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Diplomat

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Nasserists 27T

Iraqi Arab nationalists 41T

Secretaries General of OPEC 15T
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Abbas Fahdel

Iraqi-France film director and screenwriter

Overview: Abbas Fahdel (Arabic عباس فاضل) is an Iraqi-French film director, screenwriter and film critic, born in Babylon, Iraq.

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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21st-century screenwriters 214T

21st-century French non-fiction writers 218T

French male screenwriters 543T
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Samir Naqqash

Israeli writer

Overview: Samir Naqqash (Hebrew: סמיר נקאש‎, Arabic: سمير نقاش‎; b. Baghdad 1938, d. Petah Tikva 6 July 2004) was an Israeli novelist, short-story writer, and playwright who immigrated from Iraq at ...

Date of birth: 1938

Date of death: 6 July 2004

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

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20th-century Israeli dramatists and playwrights 15T

Burials at Segula Cemetery 28T

20th-century French male writers 1,582T
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Sami Michael

Author, novelist, the President of ACRI – The Association for Civil Rights in Israel

Overview: Sami Michael (Hebrew: סמי מיכאל, Arabic: سامي ميخائيل; born August 15, 1926) was an Israeli author, having migrated from Iraq to Israel at the age of 23. Since 2001, Michael has been the President of The ...

Date of birth: 15 August 1926

Date of death: 1 April 2024

Age: 97 (age at death)

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Iraqi people of Israeli descent 1T

Tudeh Party of Iran members 21T

EMET Prize recipients in Culture and Art 5T
13.

Kenza Braiga

Iraqi actor

Overview: Manal Braiga better known as Kenza Braiga (born November 13, 1976 in Baghdad, Iraq) is a French television contestant, actress and author of Iraqi origin, she is simply known as Kenza Braiga. She and her ...

Date of birth: 13 November 1976

Age: 48

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Female

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Iraqi memoirists 6T

Iraqi television actresses 9T

Iraqi actresses 10T
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Avi Shlaim

Israeli-British historian (born 1945)

Overview: Avraham "Avi" Shlaim FBA (born 31 October 1945) is an Iraqi-born Israeli-British historian, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and fellow of the British Academy ...

Date of birth: 31 October 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: British

Occupation: Historian

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Jewish Israeli anti-Zionists 32T

Jewish British anti-Zionists 26T

British international relations scholars 12T
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Susanne Ayoub

Austrian-Iraqi writer, journalist and filmmaker

Overview: Susanne Ayoub (born 1956 in Baghdad) is an Austrian-Iraqi writer, journalist and filmmaker. She is known primarily for her crime novels, such as Engelsgift (2004), published by Hoffmann und Campe in H ...

Date of birth: 1956

Age: 68

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Austrian women writers 144T

Iraqi women writers 42T

1956 births 14,630T
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Maruf al Rusafi

Iraqi poet

Overview: Ma'ruf bin Abdul Ghani al Rusafi (1875–1945) (Arabic: معروف الرصافي) was a poet, educationist and literary scholar from Iraq. He is considered by many as a controversial figure in modern Iraqi literature ...

Date of birth: 1875

Date of death: 16 March 1945

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Poet

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Members of Iraqi Academy of Sciences 4T

19th-century poets of Ottoman Iraq 17T

20th-century Iraqi educators 7T
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Walid al-Kubaisi

Writer

Overview: Walid al-Kubaisi (9 February 1958 – 31 July 2018) was a Norwegian-Iraqi author, journalist, translator, film director and government scholar. He notably criticized Islamism in the documentary film Frihet ...

Date of birth: 9 February 1958

Date of death: 31 July 2018

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Writer

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20th-century Norwegian translators 65T

Former Muslim critics of Islam 86T

2018 deaths 9,212T
18.

Oday Rasheed

Iraqi film director

Overview: Oday Rasheed (born June 17, 1973 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi film director and writer. He studied at the Institute for Electrical Science as well as the Faculty of Applicable Arts in Baghdad, both of ...

Date of birth: 17 June 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Film Director

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People from Baghdad 502T

Iraqi film directors 38T

1973 births 15,455T
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Laith Alattar

Iraqi, Musician

Overview: Laith Alattar is an Iraqi American composer, singer, and oud player.

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Musician

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Iraqi singers 22T

Iraqi oud players 11T

Iraqi musicians 36T
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Ibn al-Fuwati

Medieval librarian and historian

Overview: Kamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Razzāḳ ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Fuwaṭī (Arabic: عبد الرزاق بن أحمد بن الفوطي‎) best known as Ibn al-Fuwati (25 June 1244 – 1323), was a medieval librarian and historian who wrote a great ...

Date of birth: 1244

Date of death: 1323

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Historian

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Ilkhanate historians 5T

Arab Muslim historians of Islam 11T

14th-century Arab people 2T