First Deputy Speaker congratulates Iraqi writer Shahad Al-Rawi for winning the 2018 First Book Award at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

The First Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives Mr. Hassan Karim Al-Kaabi congratulated the Iraqi novelist Shahad Al-Rawi for winning the Book Award at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, describing this win as a great pride for Iraq.
Al-Kaabi remarked: “all Iraqis are proud of the young novelist Shahad Al-Rawi, for being the first female Iraqi writer to win British Edinburgh Award”.
The First Deputy Speaker Media Office
2/11/2018