mediating between Arabic- and English-language cultures, and for his scholarship of modern Iraqi literature. Talal Al-Haj, Iraqi Journalist. He is the current New York/United Nations Bureau Chief for the Al-Arabiya news network. Fadhil Al Azzawi, writer, journalist and translator Zuhair Al-Jezairy, journalist Atwar Bahjat, journalist and reporter murdered in Iraq Rauf Hassan, journalist and writer Bilal Hussein, photojournalist Salam Pax, blogger, translator and journalist Taher Thabet, journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, unembedded Iraqi journalist Journalists of Iraqi descent Lorraine Ali, reporter, editor and culture writer for many publications, including Newsweek. Ali was born to an Iraqi American father who immigrated from Baghdad to Los Angeles in the 1950s. Her mother is of French Canadian descent. Leila Barclay, American journalist and storyteller Nina Burleigh, American writer and journalist. Burleigh has written about her visits to Iraq, her mother's country of birth, both as a child and later in life as a journalist. Dunja Hayali, German journalist and TV presenter Salam Karam, Swedish journalist, has reported for the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and in the radio program Godmorgon, världen!. Farah Nosh, photojournalist Michelle Nouri, journalist and writer, her publications include "La ragazza di Baghdad" ("The girl in Baghdad"). Daniel Pearl (1963–2002), American journalist, kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan. (Born to an Iraqi Jewish mother). Tim Judah, reporter for The Economist and author. Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi, London-based journalist, analyst on Arab affairs, and co-founder and chairman of Arab Media Watch, a media watchdog organization that monitors and responds to British media coverage of the Arab world. Nashashibi was born in Kuwait to a Palestinian-Jordanian-Lebanese Muslim father and an Iraqi-Syrian Christian mother. Rulers and military figures Ashurbanipal Ashurnasirpal II Abdul Karim Qasim Hamid Raja Shalah Hammurabi Khalil Dabbagh Nebuchadrezzar II Sargon of Akkad Sargon II Saladin Saddam Hussein Sennacherib Talib Shaghati Other military figures Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh (1889–1945), Iraqi Army officer Hagop Hagopian, one of the founders and the main leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA). Toma Tomas, also known by his nom de guerre Abu Joseph, Assyrian politician and the leader of anti-government militias (al-Ansar) in northern Iraq during the 1960s and '70s. Military figures of Iraqi origin J. F. R. Jacob (born 1923), retired Indian Army Lieutenant General. He is best known for the role he played in India's victory in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 and the Liberation of Bangladesh. He also fought in World War II