Inaam Kachachi
Inaam Kachachi (Arabic:انعام كجه جي; born 1952) is an Iraqi journalist and author. She studied journalism at Baghdad University, working in Iraqi press and radio before moving to Paris to complete a PhD at the Sorbonne. She is currently the Paris correspondent for London-based newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat and Kol Al-Usra magazine in Sharjah, UAE. Kachachi has published a biography, Lorna, about the British journalist Lorna Hales, who was married to the famous pioneering Iraqi sculptor Jawad Salim, and a book in French about Iraqi women's literature produced in times of war.
Also recorded as Inʻām Kajahʹjī
Inaam Kachachi
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- Name
- Inaam Kachachi
- Born
- 1 January 1952
- Birthplace
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Education
- University of Baghdad
- Occupation
- Activist, Author, Journalist and Documentarist
- Nationality
- Iraq
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Inaam Kachachi (Arabic:انعام كجه جي; born 1952) is an Iraqi journalist and author. She studied journalism at Baghdad University, working in Iraqi press and radio before moving to Paris to complete a PhD at the Sorbonne. She is currently the Paris correspondent for London-based newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat and Kol Al-Usra magazine in Sharjah, UAE. Kachachi has published a biography, Lorna, about the British journalist Lorna Hales, who was married to the famous pioneering Iraqi sculptor Jawad Salim, and a book in French about Iraqi women's literature produced in times of war.
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Biography
Biography
She produced and directed a documentary about Naziha Al Dulaimi, the first woman to become minister of an Arab country, in 1959. Her first novel Heart Springs appeared in 2005 and her second novel The American Granddaughter, was shortlisted for IPAF in 2009. An English translation of the novel was published by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing in 2010.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Inaam Kachachi • Born — 1 January 1952 • Birthplace — Baghdad, Iraq • Education — University of Baghdad • Occupation — Activist, Author, Journalist and Documentarist
Life and career
Life and career
She was born in Baghdad and studied journalism at university. She worked as a journalist in both print media and radio before moving to France in 1979. She went on to obtain a PhD in Paris. She still lives and works in Paris, and is the local correspondent for a couple of Arabic-language newspapers.
Work
Work
In 2004, Kachachi made a documentary on Naziha Al Dulaimi, the first female cabinet minister in the Arab world. She has also published several fiction and non-fiction titles. These are: • Lorna, her years with Jawad Selim (Beirut, 1998) (non-fiction) • Paroles d’Irakiennes (Paris, 2003) (non-fiction) • Sawaqi al-Quloob (Streams of Hearts, 2005) (novel) • Al-Hafeeda al-Amreekiya (The American Granddaughter, 2008) (novel; translated into English by Nariman Youssef) • Tashari (2013) • Annabitha, (the outcast), 2017, has been shortlisted for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Kachachi's second novel The American Granddaughter was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize. Tashari was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2014).
Films
• Al Manshour Al Alani(Openly published), Baghdad, 1975. • Lena, an Iraqi in LA, Los Angeles, 2004, a 10 minutes documentary film, about the participation of women in the first election after the American invasion. • Naziha Al Dulaimi, Potsdam, 2004, a 30 minutes documentary film about, the Iraqi woman doctor who, in 1959, was the first woman to become a minister in an Arab country. Then she was exiled in Germany. • Mahjoub, Cairo and Beirut, 2016, a 60 minutes documentary film about the Copte doctor who was a militant for peace, who was also a poet and a writer for young readers.
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- 1.Inaam Kachachi. ateliermondial.com. 2020.
- 2.Inaam Kachachi – Iraq. arabfiction.org.
- 3.Inaam Kachachi : lauréate 2016 du Prix de la littérature arabe. lagardere.com. 2016.
- 4.Iraqi author Inaam Kachachi wins Lagardere Award. 2016-09-18.
- 5.Mohammad Ismail Shibib. Irakische Autoren im Migrationsland Deutschland. 2020-08. 1869-3660.
- 6.Deema Ammari, Areej Allawzi, Zaydun al-Shara. Diaspora Reversed: A Post-Modern ‘Third Space’ in ‘The American Granddaughter. 2019. 1680-0982.
- 7.Deema Ammari, Areej Allawzi, Zaydun al-Shara. Diaspora Reversed: A Post-Modern ‘Third Space’ in ‘The American Granddaughter. 2019. 1680-0982.
- 8.Deema Ammari, Areej Allawzi, Zaydun al-Shara. Diaspora Reversed: A Post-Modern ‘Third Space’ in ‘The American Granddaughter. 2019. 1680-0982.
- 9.Qasem Hassen Sabeeh. Cultural Imposition and Identity Formation: A Cross-Cultural Study of Inaam Kachachi's The American Grand-Daughter. 2022-06. 2312-8135.
- 10.Qasem Hassen Sabeeh. Cultural Imposition and Identity Formation: A Cross-Cultural Study of Inaam Kachachi's The American Grand-Daughter. 2022-06. 2312-8135.
- 11.Shawnm Marif Ahmed. Identity Crisis in Inaam Kachachi’s The American Granddaughter. 2022. 2520-7377.
- 12.Shawnm Marif Ahmed. Identity Crisis in Inaam Kachachi’s The American Granddaughter. 2022. 2520-7377.
- 13.Fadwa K. AbdelRahman. Writing the Self / Writing the Other in Thomas Keneally’s The Tyrant’s Novel and Inaam Kachachi’s The American Granddaughter. 2012. 1705-9100.
- 14.Fadwa K. AbdelRahman. Writing the Self / Writing the Other in Thomas Keneally’s The Tyrant’s Novel and Inaam Kachachi’s The American Granddaughter. 2012. 1705-9100.
- 15.Mona Salah Eldin Elnamoury. The Translator as a Traumatized Protagonist in Inaam Kachachi’s The American Granddaughter. 2021. 2636-4239.
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