Mikhail Murad

Mikhail Murad (Hebrew: מיכאל מראד, Arabic: ميخائيل مراد ; Baghdad, 1906 – February 13, 1986, Tel Aviv ) was a Jewish-Iraqi poet, writer, journalist, academic, and pioneer of Jewish-Arab literature in the twentieth century, both in poetry and prose.

After immigrating to Israel in 1949, he was involved in the Arab education and wrote several textbooks.

While in Israel he completed his master's degree at the Hebrew University, and completed his doctoral work in 1965 at Tel Aviv University, which was based on material from the Cairo Geniza.

His overall book of poems was published in 1988, two years after his death.