Burhan Al-Chalabi (born 1 March 1947) is a British-Iraqi writer and political commentator, and an expert on Middle Eastern relations.
He is also the publisher of the London Magazine, Britain's oldest journal of the arts and literature (est 1732).
[1] Al-Chalabi is the founder and former chairman of the British-Iraqi Foundation,[2] and has been described as one of the most prominent Iraqis living in the UK.
He purchased the historical publication in 2011, after substantial cuts in its Art Council funding threatened its continuation.
Al-Chalabi is the founder and former chairman of the British-Iraqi Foundation, and NGO formed with the aim of promoting increasingly close British-Iraqi relations (patrons have included Sir Cyril Townsend, Sir John Moberley, Anthony Harris, and Sabah Al-Mukhtar).