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Linda Abdul Aziz Menuhin (born 1950; , ) is an Iraqi-born Israeli journalist, editor, and blogger who has written for Arab news. Menuhin was a refugee to Israel in the 1970s and has been nicknamed, the "Anne Frank of Iraq". She previously served as head of the Middle East desk and commentator on Arab affairs on Arabic television channel 1. She was the subject of the 2013 Israeli documentary film ''
Interview with Linda Menuhin (2006)
the
Linda Abdul Aziz Menuhin (born 1950; , ) is an Iraqi-born Israeli journalist, editor, and blogger who has written for Arab news. Menuhin was a refugee to Israel in the 1970s and has been nicknamed, the "Anne Frank of Iraq". She previously served as head of the Middle East desk and commentator on Arab affairs on Arabic television channel 1. She was the subject of the 2013 Israeli documentary film ''Shadow in Baghdad
''Shadow in Baghdad'' is a 2013 documentary film directed by Duki Dror. The film chronicles the story of Linda Abdul Aziz Menuhin, an Israeli citizen who fled her native Iraq in the 1970s, and her connection with a young Iraqi journalist who reac ...
'', directed by Duki Dror
Zadok "Duki” Dror ( he, דוקי (צדוק) דרור), (born 1963) is an independent Israeli filmmaker whose films explore issues of migration, identity and displacement.
Biography
Zadok (Duki) Dror was born in Tel Aviv. In the early 1950s, ...
.
Biography
Menuhin was born in 1950 inBaghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
, Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
into an Arab Jewish family. After the Six-Day War
The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states (primarily United Arab Republic, Egypt, S ...
in 1967, the Jews of Baghdad became targets. At the age of 21, she fled to Israel via Pahlavi Iran
The Imperial State of Iran ( fa, کشور شاهنشاهی ایران, ), also known as the Imperial State of Persia, was the official name of the Iranian state under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty.
It was formed in 1925 and lasted until 197 ...
with her brother. A few months later her mother and sister did the same route, and the family left behind her father. When she first arrived to Israel in 1971, there was a struggle for people to understand the history of Jews in Iraq and she has expressed feeling like, "there was no room for the Arab culture in Israel" during that time.
In 1972 her father Yaakub Abdul Aziz, a prominent lawyer in Iraq, was abducted by government agents and was never heard of again. In the following years in Iraq, Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolution ...
was put into power and by then many of the Baghdadi Jews had fled, were missing, or had been killed.
The film ''Shadow in Baghdad'' is about Menuhin's family and trying to answer some of the unsolved mysteries around her father’s disappearance and the disappearance of Baghdad's Jewish population.
In 1981, Menuhin started working for Arabic television on channel 1 (Israel), first as a magazine editor and later as head of the Middle East desk. She later worked as a consultant with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( he, מִשְׂרַד הַחוּץ, translit. ''Misrad HaHutz''; ar, وزارة الخارجية الإسرائيلية) is one of the most important ministries in the Israeli government. The ministry's ...
for the Arabic digital media.
See also
*Baghdadi Jews
The former communities of Jewish migrants and their descendants from Baghdad and elsewhere in the Middle East are traditionally called Baghdadi Jews or Iraqi Jews. They settled primarily in the ports and along the trade routes around the Indian ...
* History of the Jews in Iraq
The history of the Jews in Iraq ( he, יְהוּדִים בָּבְלִים, ', ; ar, اليهود العراقيون, ) is documented from the time of the Babylonian captivity c. 586 BC. Iraqi Jews constitute one of the world's oldest and mos ...
References
External links
Interview with Linda Menuhin (2006)
the
National Library of Israel
The National Library of Israel (NLI; he, הספרייה הלאומית, translit=HaSifria HaLeumit; ar, المكتبة الوطنية في إسرائيل), formerly Jewish National and University Library (JNUL; he, בית הספרים הלא ...
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1950 births
Living people
People from Baghdad
Iraqi Jews
Israeli journalists
Israeli women journalists
Israeli editors
Israeli women editors
Iraqi emigrants to Israel
Israeli Arab Jews
Channel 1 (Israel) people
Baghdadi Jews