Iqbal al-Qazwini is an Iraqi journalist and novelist.
[1] She was exiled in East Berlin, Germany in 1978 when she was in her early 20s, a consequence of Saddam Hussein's rise to power in her homeland.
Al-Qazwini is best known for her 2005 novel Mamarrat al-Sukun (Amman: Dar Azminah, 2005).
This was translated into English under the title Zubaida's Window by Azza el-Kholy and Amira Nowaira.
As a journalist, al-Qazwini's work has appeared in various German and Arabic periodicals, such as Asharq Al-Aswat and Al Riyadh (newspaper).