Shathil Nawaf Taqa, French-Iraqi lawyer, is a PhD law student at the Sorbonne and works as a lawyer in Doha. In 2017, he was voted Qatar's Leading Legal Practitioner of the Year by LexisNexis (the world's leading law firm). He writes regularly in the literary sections of the magazines Le Comptoir and Philitt. He has also written legal articles for LexisNexis.