Shahad Al Rawi

Biography

Shahad Al Rawi is an Iraqi writer based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Her first novel, The Baghdad Clock (Oneworld, 2018), won the 2018 First Book Award at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Al Rawi holds a PhD in anthropology and writes a weekly column for an Emirati newspaper, Al-Roeya. 

See Work

PHOTOGRAPHY / Fall 2020

A Fragile Inheritance

Photography by Nicole Tung ,  Essay by Shahad Al Rawi

An Iraqi Youth Uprising against a Dire Economy and Foreign Intervention

Since October 2019, a protest movement has emerged in Iraq, led principally by high school and university students. Baghdad.