She completed her high school education in Baghdad and then left Iraq for Syria after 2003, she then completed her college degree at Damascus University (Syria) obtaining a bachelor's degree from the College of Management and Economics in Business Administration.She then obtained a master's degree in Human Resource Management at the same university. The Baghdad Clock then went onto win the First Book Award at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.Īl-Rawi was born in Baghdad, Iraq on February 1, 1986, to Iraqi parents, her origins go back to the city of Rawa, in the Anbar Province, in western Iraq. It has also been translated into more than 20 languages. Her debut novel The Baghdad Clock (2016) was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize and was shortlisted, marking herself the youngest author to reach the list at that time. She was born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq. Shahad Al Rawi (Arabic: شهد الراوي) is an Iraqi author, Anthropologist, and novelist. First Book Award at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (2018).
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