Union of Iraqi Writers or officially The General Union for the Literaries and Writers in Iraq[citation needed] (Arabic: الاتحاد العام للأدباء والكتاب في العراق) is a nonprofit professional cultural NGO that is concerned with Iraqi literary affairs.

[1] On 7 of May 1959, the first administrative body of Union elected by secret ballot; Jawahiri elected president by acclamation, and Salah Khalis as general secretary and members: Zul Nun Ayoub, Mohammed Saleh Bahr al-Ulum, Mahdi Makhzoumi and Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati, Ali Jawad al-Tahir (who became secretary general after the assignment of Dr. Khalis to work outside Iraq) and Lamia Abbas Amara and Yousef al-Ani and Saadi Yousef and Abdullah Goran and Abdul Malik Nuri and Abdul Majid al-Wendawi and Ali Jalil al-Wardi and the name of Abdul Hamid Hammoudi.

[citation needed] The Union's headquarters is located in a building on the main street in Andalus Square in Baghdad.

In addition to the Union's administration rooms, the building includes a lecture hall decorated with pictures of prominent contemporary Iraqi poets such as Badr Shaker al-Siyab, Ma'ruf al-Rusafi, Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi and others, and a library full of titles despite the theft of many of its contents during the fall of Baghdad (2003).

[2] The Union building was attacked on the evening of June 17, 2015, by “an armed group dressed in black and carrying machine guns and light weapons.”[3]