Nahla Chahal is a Lebanese writer, journalist, researcher and activist, born to an

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 the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

i mother and Lebanese father, who were both communist militants.Asia Times Online :: Middle East News - Amid the bombs, unity is forged
/ref> She was one of the leaders of the Organization of Communist Action of Lebanon and a participant in the

Lebanese Communist Party The Lebanese Communist Party (LCP), abbr. PCL is a communist party in Lebanon. It was founded in 1924 by the Lebanese intellectual, writer and reporter Yusuf Yazbek and Fu'ad al-Shamali, a tobacco worker from Bikfaya. History Creation The Sy ...

. She is also a columnist at

Al Hayat Al-Hayat ( ar, الحياة meaning "Life") was a London-based, pan-Arab newspaper owned by Saudi Prince Khalid bin Sultan, that had a circulation estimated over 200,000. It was the newspaper of record for the Arab diaspora and the preferred v ...

pan Arabic newspaper, which is published in

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

. She taught at the Lebanese University for eleven years, then she later moved to Paris to focus more on research and is now president of the Arab Women Researchers Association. She is sister of late film director

Randa Chahal Randa Chahal Sabbagh (Arabic: رندا شهال صباغ) was a Lebanese film director, producer and screenwriter. Chahal was born December 11, 1953 in Tripoli, Lebanon to an Iraqi mother and a Lebanese father. She died of cancer August 25, 20 ...

and currently resides in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

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, where Randa died.

Publications

* ''Une Irakité latente'' (2003), which was published in ''Le Moyen-Orient sous le choc'' * ''La formidable capacité d’intégration du système libanais'' (2002) * ''Avril à Jénine'' (2000)

References

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Writings by Nahla Chahal
Year of birth missing (living people) Lebanese activists Lebanese journalists Lebanese women journalists Living people Lebanese people of Iraqi descent Lebanese University faculty Lebanese emigrants to France {{Lebanon-writer-stub