# Michelle Nouri

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{{Short description|Italian journalist and author}}
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| name               = Michelle Nouri
| native_name        = ميشيل نوري
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| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1973|10|17}}
| birth_place        = [Prague](/source/Prague), [Czechoslovakia](/source/Czechoslovakia)
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| occupation         = Journalist, author
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| notable_works      = ''The girl in Baghdad''
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'''Michelle Raghdee Nouri''', (Arabic:ميشيل رغدي نوري''';''' born October 17, 1973)<ref name=Lamescolanza>{{cite web |url=http://lamescolanza.com/INTERVISTE0205/0205/Michelle.htm |title=L'Araba Felice - Michelle Nouri |accessdate=2010-11-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125010909/http://lamescolanza.com/INTERVISTE0205/0205/Michelle.htm |archivedate=2010-11-25 }}</ref> is an [Italian](/source/Italians) [journalist](/source/journalist) and [author](/source/author), most known for her first memoir, ''"The girl from Baghdad"'', which highlights her childhood in [Baghdad](/source/Baghdad), fleeing Iraq and her arrival in Italy. With her new memoir, ''"Il cammino delle foglie di tè"'' ("The path of tea leaves"), Nouri concludes from where she began in her first novel and covers her integration in [the West](/source/Western_world).

==Biography==
Nouri was born in [Prague](/source/Prague) to an [Iraqi](/source/Iraqi_people) [Muslim](/source/Muslim) father from [Baghdad](/source/Baghdad) and a [Catholic](/source/Catholic) [Czech](/source/Czech_people) mother.<ref name=telegiornaliste>{{Cite web|url=http://www.telegiornaliste.com/nouri.htm|title = Michelle Nouri telegiornalista e scrittrice}}</ref> Six months after her birth, she moved with her parents to Baghdad where they lived until she was sixteen. Soon after the [Gulf War](/source/Gulf_War) erupted, Nouri's father divorced her mother, who decided to travel back to Prague with Nouri and her sisters in 1988 after the fall of communism. Nouri then left at the age of eighteen to settle in [Italy](/source/Italy).<ref name=zam>{{Cite web|url=http://www.zam.it/biografia_Michelle_Nouri|title=Michelle Nouri Biografia}}</ref>

Her publications involve the intercultural dialogue between both [Islam](/source/Islam) and [Christianity](/source/Christianity),<ref name=telegiornaliste/> the two religions she grew up with; in addition to the differing cultures she has been exposed to. Nouri currently works with various newspapers, and has revealed her story in two autobiographies, The girl from Baghdad, 2007 and The path of tea leaves, 2010.

She was also known for having "flirted" with the late [Uday Hussein](/source/Uday_Hussein), former Iraqi president [Saddam Hussein](/source/Saddam_Hussein)'s eldest son.<ref name=Lamescolanza/>

==Publications==
* ''"La ragazza di Baghdad"'' ("The girl in Baghdad"), 2007
* ''"Il cammino delle foglie di tè"'', 2010

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.telegiornaliste.com/nouri.htm Michelle Nouri biography in Italian] via telegiornaliste.com
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRFZpAcSxHM Michelle Nouri video interview for Televisionet] via youtube.com

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Category:Italian women writers
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Category:Iraqi women writers
Category:Iraqi writers
Category:Italian women memoirists
Category:21st-century Italian writers

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