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Khalid Kishtainy

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Khalid Kishtainy (born 1929) is an Iraqi writer and satirist living in London.

Life

Born in Baghdad, Kishtainy trained as a lawyer and artist, graduating in painting from Baghdad’s Institute of Fine Arts in 1952 and gaining a law degree from the University of Baghdad in 1953. After the 1958 Iraq Revolution broke out he stopped teaching painting in Baghdad and moved to London to work for the BBC. Since 1989 he has written a daily satirical column in al-Sharq al-Awsat.[1]

Works

  • Verdict in absentia: a study of the Palestine case as represented to the Western World, 1969
  • Whither Israel? A study of Zionist expansionism, 1970
  • Palestine in perspective, 1971
  • The new statesman and the Middle East, 1972
  • Social and foreign affairs in Iraq, 1979
  • The prostitute in progressive literature, 1982
  • Arab political humour, 1992
  • Tales from old Baghdad: grandma and I, 1997
  • Tomorrow is another day: a tale of Saddam’s Baghdad, 2003
  • By the rivers of Babylon, 2008
  • Arabian tales: Baghdad-on-Thames, 2011

Reference

  1. ^ Khalid Kishtainy
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