Nazik al-Malaika

Nazik al-Malaika was born in Baghdad on 23 August 1923, the daughter of a poet and of a father who was a teacher and writer. A graduate of the Higher Teachers' College in Baghdad in 1944, she also studied music at the Institute of Fine Arts, from which she graduated in 1949, then obtained a master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin in 1959. She taught at the universities of Baghdad, Basra and Kuwait, and lived in Kuwait until the invasion of 1990. She then settled in Cairo, where she died on 20 June 2007, aged eighty-three.

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• Poetryشظايا ورمادNazik al-Malaika · 1949not translated into EnglishLiterature