Nahla Chahal is a Iraqi-Lebanese writer, journalist, researcher and activist, born to an Iraqi father and Lebanese mother, who were both communist militants.
She is also a columnist at Al Hayat pan Arabic newspaper, which is published in London.
She taught at the Lebanese University for eleven years, then she later moved to Paris to focus more on research and is now president of the Arab Women Researchers Association.
She is sister of late film director Randa Chahal and currently resides in Paris, France, where Randa died.
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