Paulina Hassoun

Pauline Hassoun (Arabic: بولينا حسون; 1895–1969) was an Iraqi journalist and teacher, who was the first woman to found and publish a magazine in Iraq.

Hassoun was born in Ottman Empire (in an area that is now Jordan) in 1895 to a father from Mesopotamia and a Syrian mother.

Her family moved between the areas of the Ottoman Empire that are now Syria, Palestine and Jordan, and also spent some time in Egypt before she settled in Baghdad.

[2] Interested in journalism, Hassoun founded Layla in 1923 as a magazine that would publish "everything new and useful related to science, art, literature, society and housekeeping".

[5] Hassoun closed it due financial reasons and since anti-feminist campaigns against her forced her to leave Baghdad.