Atika Wahbi al-Khazraji
Iraqi poet and educator
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'Atika Wahbi al-Khazraji (Arabic: عاتÙØ© ÙÙب٠اÙخزرجÙ; 14 November 1924 â 9 November 1997) was an Iraqi poet and educator.[1][2]
Al-Khazraji was born in Baghdad, she was talented with poetry from a young age and began writing as young as ten years old, and published her poems at the age of fourteen in Iraqi magazines.[3] She received a BA from the Higher Teachers' Institute, going on to work as a teacher. In 1950, she enrolled in the Sorbonne, receiving a PhD in 1955. She published a collection of the poet Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf's work in 1954. She later taught Arabic at the Higher Teachers' Institute. She published a work on the poet Isma'il Sabri.[1][2][3]
