Shathel Taqa

Shathel Taqa, (in Arabic:شاذل طاقة 28 April 1929 – 20 October 1974), an Iraqi poet, diplomat and politician.

He is one of the pioneer founders of the School of Modern Arabic Poetry, which emerged in Iraq in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Taqa was born in the Iraqi city of Mosul, Nineveh, where he completed his school studies.

While working as a high school teacher after graduation, he actively wrote articles in the local press, most of which were political that caused him troubles with the authorities.

Iraqi and Arab scholars, who studied his poetry, noticed that the volume of his poetical works was relatively limited to a certain extent.