most influential contemporary Iraqi female poets. Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati (December 19, 1926 – August 3, 1999), Iraqi poet. He was a pioneer in his field and defied conventional form of poetry that had been common for centuries. Abdul Razzak Abdul Wahid (1930–2015), Mandaean poet. Saadi Yousef (born 1934 near Basra, Iraq), Iraqi author, poet, journalist, publisher, and political activist. Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati (December 19, 1926 – August 3, 1999), Iraqi poet. He was a pioneer in his field and defied conventional form of poetry that had been common for centuries. Ferhad Shakely (born 1951), prominent Kurdish writer, poet and researcher. He is one of the founders of modern Kurdish poetry in the post-Goran period. He was born in 1951 in the province of Kirkuk in Iraq. Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri (26 July 1899 – 1 January 1997), famous Iraqi poet. Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (December 24, 1926 – 1964), Iraqi and Arab poet, born in Jekor, a town south of Basra in Iraq. was one of the greatest poets in Arabic literature, whose experiments helped to change the course of modern Arabic poetry. Lamia Abbas Amara (1929–2021), Mandaean poet and pioneer of modern Arabic poetry. Rabia Basri, Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية) or simply Rābiʿah al-Baṣrī (Arabic: رابعة البصري) (717–801 C.E.) was a female Muslim saint and Sufi mystic. Enheduanna, Akkadian princess as well as High Priestess of the Moon god Nanna (Sin). Enheduanna composed 42 hymns addressed to temples across Sumer and Akkad including Eridu, Sippar and Esnunna Amira Hess, Israeli poet and artist. She arrived to Israel in 1951 from Baghdad Iraq. Haifa Zangana (born 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq), Iraqi novelist, author, artist, and political activist, best known for writing Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London. Daisy Al-Amir, Iraqi writer, poet and novelist. She is author of The Waiting List: An Iraqi Woman's Tales of Alienation has renowned her as one of the leading female writers of Iraq. She was born in Basra in 1935. Sargon Boulus (1944–2007), Iraqi-Assyrian poet and short story writer Walid al-Kubaisi, writer Thura Al Windawi, author Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, poet and philosopher Inaam Kachachi (born 1942), Iraqi journalist and author Al-Hariri of Basra, Iraqi poet, scholar of the Arabic language and high government official of the Seljuk Empire. Hafsa Bikri, poet Ya'qub Bilbul, writer Naeim Giladi, Anti-Zionist, author of an autobiographical article and historical analysis titled The Jews of Iraq. The