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Mona Yahia is an Iraqi-born artist, writer, and filmmaker. She was born in 1954 in Baghdad, Iraq, and is currently living in the United States. She is best known for her work in the fields of painting, photography, and film. Yahia studied painting and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad, and later went on to study film at the University of Southern California. She has exhibited her work in galleries and museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Yahia has written and directed several short films, including "The Garden of Eden" (2003), "The Last Supper" (2005), and "The Journey" (2007). She has also written and directed several feature films, including "The House of the Sun" (2009) and "The Last Supper" (2011). Yahia is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film for "The House of the Sun" in 2009. As of 2021, Mona Yahia's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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2013

Love Traps. Kindle Edition, 2013 (ASIN: B00E8ODI1W).

Yahia has spent nearly one year as writer-in-residence in Istanbul – 2013/14, in the “Atelier Galata”, a program established by the Arts council’s of the city of Cologne”, and again in 2017 under the same program, funded by the Kunststiftung NRW, Dusseldorf.

2009

A Borrowed Tongue (Essay). In: Fikrun wa Fann/Art and Thought  Nr. 91, Goethe Institute, Munich 2009.

2001

When the Grey Beetles Took over Baghdad won the JQ-Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction in 2001 , and in 2003 the Price of the Jury der Jungen Leser in Vienna/Austria.

2000

In 2000, Mona Yahia published the novel "When the Grey Beetles Took over Baghdad" in London which portrays Jewish life in Baghdad in the 1960s and the plight of the Jewish community after the Six Day War from the point of view of a teenager and in 2003 the Price of the Jury der Jungen Leser in Vienna/Austria. The novel was translated into German and French.

When the Grey Beetles Took over Baghdad. Peter Halban Publishers, London 2000, ISBN 1-870015-74-6; paperback 1-870015-85-1; American edition: George Braziller New York, 2007 ISBN 978-0807615829.

1993

Domino Effect. In: London Magazine, vol. 33 no. 1&2, London 1993.

1970

Mona Yahia was born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq.  She fled with her family to Iran in 1970 and from there immigrated to Israel.  She did her military service between 1972 and 1974 and then studied psychology and French at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel.. After a one-year stay in Paris, she went on to study clinical psychology in Tel Aviv and worked as a psychologist. In 1985 she moved to Germany to study fine arts at the Academy of Arts in Kassel with Harry Kramer.  During these years she used photographs and everyday objects (soap, postcards, beer mats, cinnamon stars) to comment the culture of remembrance of the German society with regard to the Shoah.

1954

Mona Yahia (born 1954 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an artist and writer; she publishes novels, stories, short stories and participates in art exhibitions and events.