Salma Abdul Razzaq al-Malaika[a] (Arabic: سلمى الملائكة; c. 1908–1953) was an Iraqi poet.
[3] Her younger brother Abd al-Sahib Al-Malaika (Arabic: عبد الصاحب الملائكة) became a poet and lawyer.
[7] Al-Malaika was an autodidact, educated exclusively in Arabic, but also is thought to have had limited knowledge of Persian.
[7] She wrote feminist verse, glorifying the role of Arab women in history and emphasising the predicament of modern Iraqi women, urging them to overcome difficulties as the "victims of ignorance, stagnation, and narrow-mindedness".
[6] In her poems about Palestine, she refers to it as a land of peace and martyrdom that was "stabbed in the heart" by the British issuance of the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
In her poems, she specifically addresses the Partition Plan for Palestine and the subsequent 1949 Armistice Agreements.