Amal Al Khedairy (born 1928) [1] is an Iraqi academic, lecturer, scholar, [2] art historian [3] and founder and director of the cultural centre "Al Beit Al Iraqi" ("The Iraqi House") in Baghdad. [1] [4] The centre would focus mostly on reviving Iraqi crafts and finding new avenues for them, as well as concerts and lectures; being the only institution of its kind in Baghdad to do so during the 90s. [4] It was the only private center in Iraq focusing on Iraqi craft and heritage in Baghdad during the mid eighties until the fall of Baghdad on 9 April 2003.
Amal Al Khedairy was born in Damascus, French Syria, 1928, to a Syrian mother and well-known Iraqi father, Yasseen Al Khedairy, whose family has deep roots in Iraq since the 15th century. [1] Her father's family are connected to the Shammar tribe who originated from Najd in the Arabian Peninsula. [1] They later settled in the old quarter of Baghdad, close to the Gailani Mosque in the Bab Al Sheikh district, where her father would build a home later to become Amal's "Al Beit Al Iraqi" in 1988; [4] which was destroyed in a bombing by the American forces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq on April 4, 2003.
She studied at the University of London in the 1950s and also in Lausanne, Switzerland. [1]
Fluent in Arabic, English and French, with conversational Turkish and Spanish, Khedairy has been a lecturer at both the University of Baghdad, in the College of Architecture and the Women's College. [1]
Al Khedairy has one son, Munir El-Kadi (born 1970) and she resides between Amman, Jordan and Baghdad, Iraq.
Amal Al Khedairy (born 1928) [1] is an Iraqi academic, lecturer, scholar, [2] art historian [3] and founder and director of the cultural centre "Al Beit Al Iraqi" ("The Iraqi House") in Baghdad. [1] [4] The centre would focus mostly on reviving Iraqi crafts and finding new avenues for them, as well as concerts and lectures; being the only institution of its kind in Baghdad to do so during the 90s. [4] It was the only private center in Iraq focusing on Iraqi craft and heritage in Baghdad during the mid eighties until the fall of Baghdad on 9 April 2003.
Amal Al Khedairy was born in Damascus, French Syria, 1928, to a Syrian mother and well-known Iraqi father, Yasseen Al Khedairy, whose family has deep roots in Iraq since the 15th century. [1] Her father's family are connected to the Shammar tribe who originated from Najd in the Arabian Peninsula. [1] They later settled in the old quarter of Baghdad, close to the Gailani Mosque in the Bab Al Sheikh district, where her father would build a home later to become Amal's "Al Beit Al Iraqi" in 1988; [4] which was destroyed in a bombing by the American forces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq on April 4, 2003.
She studied at the University of London in the 1950s and also in Lausanne, Switzerland. [1]
Fluent in Arabic, English and French, with conversational Turkish and Spanish, Khedairy has been a lecturer at both the University of Baghdad, in the College of Architecture and the Women's College. [1]
Al Khedairy has one son, Munir El-Kadi (born 1970) and she resides between Amman, Jordan and Baghdad, Iraq.