Ihsan Sadiq al-Malaika (23 March 1925 in Baghdad; 23 April 2010 in Baghdad) is an Iraqi writer and translator, born to a writer and educator, Sadiq al-Malaika, and a poet Salma al-Malaika. She is the sister of the poet Nazik Al-Malaika, and her uncle is the academic, poet and minister Jamil Al-Malaika. Her great-uncle is the writer and poet Abdul Sahib al-Malaika. She received a BA in Arabic Language and Literature from Dar Al-Moalim Al-Alia in 1951, studied painting at the Institute of Fine Arts until 1953, and obtained a certificate of proficiency in English from the British Council in Baghdad in 1952. She received her MA in Comparative Literature from Istanbul University in Turkey in 1983.

She taught in girls’ secondary and preparatory schools in Baghdad from 1952 until her retirement in 1978, she married the plastic artist Ali Ghaleb Al-Shaalan, and gave birth to her children Molham, Kamet, and her daughter Daad. Her eldest son is a journalist, writer and journalist known as the Inspirational Angels.