Amal Al Khedairy

Amal Al Khedairy was born in Damascus, French Syria, 1928, to a Syrian mother and well-known Iraqi father, Yasseen Al Khedairy, whose family has deep roots in Iraq since the 15th century.^[1] Her father's family are connected to the Shammar tribe who originated from Najd in the Arabian Peninsula.^[1] They later settled in the old quarter of Baghdad, close to the Mausoleum of al-Gilani in the Bab al-Sheikh neighborhood, where her father would build a home later to become Amal's "Al Beit Al Iraqi" in 1988;^[4] which was destroyed in a bombing by the American forces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq on April 4, 2003.

She studied at the University of London in the 1950s and also in Lausanne, Switzerland.^[1]

Fluent in Arabic, English and French, with conversational Turkish and Spanish, Khedairy has been a lecturer at both the University of Baghdad, in the College of Architecture and the Women's College.^[1]

Al Khedairy has one son, Munir El-Kadi (born 1970) and she resides between Amman, Jordan and Baghdad, Iraq.