Hilal Naji bin Zain al-Din al-Shaqaqi al-Alawi (1929 - 2011) was an Iraqi scholar, writer, investigator, poet, diplomat, and jurist. He was born in Qurna, the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq. He studied in Baghdad and graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1951. He practiced law for a while, then was appointed as a diplomatic representative in Madrid, then Tehran until 1968. He was elected president of the Iraqi Authors and Writers Union in 1973 and represented Iraq in many literary and legal conferences. He has many collections of poetry and literary and critical writings.