Nawālah Aḥmad Maḥmūd al- Mutawallī

Nawala Ahmed Al-Mutawalli is an Iraqi archaeologist, philologist and former director of the Iraq Museum. She is also Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of Mosul. In 2021, she was appointed as an honorary member of the International Association for Assyriology, in recognition for her work. She is an expert in cuneiform and bullae and has published extensively on the archaeology of Iraq.

Education and career Al-Mutalwalli graduated from the University of Baghdad with a degree in archaeology in 1976, and graduated from the same institution with a PhD in 1994. She has excavated at the sites of Tell Aswad, the Hamrin Dam, Ishan Mazyad, Umma, She is an expert in cuneiform and bullae and has published extensively on the archaeology of Iraq. In 2000 she co-convened a celebration of 5000 years of writing in Iraq. She was director of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Baghdad from 2017 to 2018. |name=first|group=note were looted from the collection. Reported by The Art Newspaper to be a member of the Ba'ath Party (which was almost compulsory under Saddam Hussein's regime), after the fall of Baghdad, museum employees demanded her resignation.

Recognition In 2021, she was appointed as an honorary member of the International Association for Assyriology, in recognition for her work. She is also Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of Mosul.

Selected works Al-Mutawalli, Nawala Ahmed, et al. Bullae from the Main Tell: Documents of Umma's Administration in the Early Old Babylonian Period. With a Contribution by Adelheid Otto. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. al-Mutawalli, Nawala Ahmed. 2010. "Administrative Cuneiform Texts from Umma in the Iraq Museum. Excavation of Shara Temple." Sumer 55: 45–86. Al-Mutawalli N. A New foundation cylinder from the Temple of Nabû ša ḫarê. Iraq. 1999;61:191-194.