Dalia Al-Dujaili
British writer and editor
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Dalia Al-Dujaili is a British Iraqi writer, editor and curator. She is currently online editor of the British Journal of Photography (BJP). Her debut book Babylon, Albion was published in 2025.
Dalia Al-Dujaili | |
|---|---|
| Born | Dalia Al-Dujaili |
| Education | University of Edinburgh |
| Years active | 2019–present |
| Website | daliaaldujaili |
Early life and education
Al-Dujaili was born in a village in Surrey to Iraqi parents; her father Mohamad is half-Egyptian and studied in Leeds, while her mother Zainab fled Iraq in the late 1980s.[1][2] She graduated in 2021 from the University of Edinburgh with a Scottish Master of Arts in English literature.[3]
Career
During university, Al-Dujaili entered the Edinburgh International Film Festival's journalism competition, through which she had her first review article about a documentary published in The Skinny. She also became Editor-in-Chief of a student publication called Mxgyny and started the newsletter Misfit.[1] In 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown, she founded the magazine The Road to Nowhere.[4][5]
Upon graduating from university, Al-Dujaili was hired by the magazine It's Nice That to write articles on art and design. She became an editorial writer and digital editor at Azeema in 2021[1] and then community editor at Bricks in 2022.[6] She also had a column in This Orient.[7] In 2024, Al-Dujaili joined the BJP as Online Editor.[8]
After embarking on a camping trip to the Lake District with Max Girardeaux's group The Visionaries,[9][2] Al-Dujaili was inspired to create collages "placing British and Iraqi flora, mythic figures, and symbols side by side… threading her dual heritage into a single narrative arc".[10] This developed into her debut non-fiction book Babylon, Albion, published in 2025 via Saqi Books. The book intersects the natural world and physical land of Britain and Iraq with her identity.[11][12] Babylon, Albion was a Service95 Book Club recommendation.[13]
Later in 2025, Al-Dujaili was commissioned by Galleria Gola in Milan to curate a contemporary Palestinian photography exhibition titled Ard: To Belong to Land.[14]
Bibliography
- Babylon, Albion (2025)