May Al-Daftari

May Al-Daftari was born in Baghdad and lived in Beirut and London. Currently, she is living in Amman.

She is a graduate of the American University of Beirut (AUB) with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and is a holder of master’s degree in Area Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.

She was chief editor of the Arab Gulf Journal, a biannual between 1981–1987 and a founding member and director of the British charity, Medical Aid for Iraqi Children (MAIC) from 1995 until 2009.

She is the author of Issues in Development: The Arab Gulf States, London 1980 and Yassin Al-Hashimi, Biographical Recollections, Amman 2017 (published in Arabic).