Anwar Shaul

Anwar Shaul

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Poet, journalist and publisher · 1904–1984

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Iraqi Jewish poet and lawyer who founded the literary weekly al-Hassid in 1929 and made it Baghdad's leading magazine. He wrote the screenplay of Alia and Essam (1948), described as Iraq's first feature film, stayed in Iraq long after most Jews had left, and emigrated to Israel only in 1971.

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