Lorraine Ali, reporter, editor, culture writer and music critic for Newsweek[13] Ibrahim al-Marashi, academic plagiarized by the British government Alise Alousi, Iraqi-American poet[14] Sinan Antoon, poet, novelist and translator[15] Leila Barclay, American journalist and storyteller Alon Ben-Meir, professor, writer and is the Middle East Project director at the World Policy Institute Sargon Boulus, Assyrian-Iraqi Abdul Ameer Yousef Habeeb, journalist Jack Marshall (author), poet and author Dunya Mikhail, poet Ali Nuri, poet Armand Nassery, author and filmmaker Greg Patent, author (born in Hong Kong to a Russian father and Iraqi mother)[16] Daniel Pearl, journalist (kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan) Ayad Rahim, journalist Mahmoud Saeed, Iraqi novelist was born in Mosul in 1939. Wrote more than twenty novels and story collections, and hundreds of articles.