Kamal al-Hadithi (Arabic: كمال الحديثي, romanized: Kamāl al-Ḥadīthī; 1939 – 12 February 2018) was an Iraqi poet and journalist, best known for his Arab nationalist inclinations, who published about seventeen poetry collections between 1979 and 2001.

After 2003 deposing Ba'athist government, Al-Hadithi lived in silence and isolation for years until died in Baghdad at the age of 79.

Since 1968, he has worked as an editor in Al-Thawra newspaper, then became its first deputy editor-in-chief after that, he has been also the director of the Culture and Information Office since 1977, and the Principal of the Ba'ath Party Preparation School.

He entered politics in the 1980s and was a member of the National Assembly of [Baathist] Iraq for two consecutive terms between 1980 and 1988.

[5][2] He held the position of Director of the Culture and Information Office in the National Command of the Baath Party since 1977, and was appointed in 1997 as an advisor in the Presidential Office, while retaining his position as Director of the Office of Culture and Information in the National Command.