WBahira Abdulatif Yasin is an Iraqi writer, translator and professor living in Madrid.
WNadje Sadig Al-Ali is the author of Iraqi Women: Untold Stories From 1948 to the Present. and co-author with Nicola Pratt of What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq. Born to an Iraqi father and German mother, and having lived in Egypt for several years and being involved in the Egyptian women's movement, Al-Ali is also Professor of Gender Studies at the Center for Gender Studies at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS).
WFadhil Assultani is an Iraqi poet, translator and journalist. He has lived in London since 1994, and works as an editor of cultural department at the daily London- based newspaper Asharqalawsat. He has published several books of poetry and translation. Some of his poems were translated into Germany, Spanish, Kurdish, Persian and English. He has B.A. in English Language, College of Arts, University of Baghdad, and MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London. His latest book in English is Philip Larkin An Outsider Poet: Transcendence of Solitude, Sex and the Ordinary. His translations from English into Arabic include: Short Stories by William Trevor. The Bluest Eye, by Tony Morrison, The Wings and Other Poems, by Miroslav Holub, and Fifty Years of British Poetry (1950-2000), an anthology of British poetry including fifty-six British poets among them: Dylan Thomas, Louis MacNeice, Lawrence Durrell, Norman MacCaig, Hugh MacDiarmid, R. S. Thomas, Ted Hughes, Fillip Larkin, Charles Tomlinson, Seamus Heaney, Thom Gunn, Douglas Dunn, Michael Hamburger, Kathleen Raine, Andrew Motion, Brian Patten, Carol Ann Duffy, Catherine Fisher and others.
WTaha Baqir was an Iraqi archaeologist, author, cuneiformist, linguist, historian, and former curator of the National Museum of Iraq.
WManal Braiga better known as Kenza Braiga is a French television contestant, actress and author of Iraqi origin, she is simply known as Kenza Braiga. She and her family left Iraq during the Gulf War, in February 1991, when she was only 14. She is author of "Un jour j'ai quitté Bagdad", which is about her escape from Iraq, it was released in April 2003. She was made known in France by appearing on reality television show Loft Story. She starred as a host in French television series Boudoir, Le.
WSabiha al-Shaykh Da'ud (1912–1975) was Iraq's first female lawyer and a prominent women's rights activist.
WSalah Al-Hamdani, born in 1951 in Baghdad, is an Iraqi poet, actor, and playwright.
WHassan Mutlak (1961–1990) was an Iraqi writer, and was hanged in 1990 at the age of 29 for an attempted coup d'état. He was considered among the intellectuals of his country to be the Federico García Lorca of Iraq. He is the brother of the writer and poet Muhsin al-Ramli.
WAhmad al-Safi al-Najafi was an Iraqi poet, "a poet of extreme simplicity of style and a poetic diction that often approximates to ordinary speech".
WAnwar Shā’ūl was an Iraqi Jewish journalist, publisher, author, translator, and poet.
WTaufiq Wahby (1891–1984) was a prominent Kurdish writer, linguist and politician. He first served in the Ottoman army as a colonel, but after the creation of Iraq by the British in 1920, he became an influential officer in the new Iraqi army. He also served eight terms in ministerial posts in the Iraqi government. He was instrumental in the design of a new Kurdish alphabet based on modified Arabic letters. Taufiq Wahbi also engaged in research concerning Yazidis and their religion.
WSaadi Youssef is an Iraqi author, poet, journalist, publisher, and political activist. He has published thirty volumes of poetry in addition to seven books of prose.