99 Notable alumni of
University of Baghdad
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The University of Baghdad is 474th in the world, 95th in Asia, and 1st in Iraq by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 99 notable alumni from the University of Baghdad sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Uday Hussein
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- Graduated with doctorate in political science
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in engineering
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- politicianjournalistmilitary personnel
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Uday Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician, military commander and businessman, and the elder son of Saddam Hussein. He held numerous positions as a sports chairman, military officer and businessman, and was the head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee, Iraq Football Association, and the Fedayeen Saddam.
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Qusay Hussein
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- military personnelpolitician
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Qusay Saddam Hussein al-Nasiri al-Tikriti was an Iraqi politician, military leader, and the second son of Saddam Hussein. He was appointed as his father's heir apparent in 2000. He was also in charge of the Republican Guard, a branch of the Iraqi military. Although he had a lower public profile compared to his brother Uday, he was said to have had a key role in crushing opposition during the 1991 Iraqi uprisings. Qusay, his son Mustafa, and his brother Uday were killed in a 2003 U.S. raid in Mosul.
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Abdurrahman Wahid
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- journalistpolitician
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Abdurrahman Wahid, more colloquially known as Gus Dur (listen), was an Indonesian politician and Islamic religious leader who served as the fourth president of Indonesia, from his election in 1999 until he was removed from office in 2001. A long time leader within the Nahdlatul Ulama organization, he was the founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB). He was the son of Minister of Religious Affairs Wahid Hasyim, and the grandson of Nahdatul Ulama founder Hasyim Asy'ari. Due to a visual impairment caused by glaucoma, he was blind in the left eye and partially blind in his right eye. He was the first (and to date only) president of Indonesia to have had physical disabilities. The name Abdurrahman Wahid means "Servant of Mercy the First."
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Jalal Talabani
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- politicianjuristlawyer
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Jalal Talabani was an Iraqi politician who served as the sixth president of Iraq from 2005 to 2014, as well as the president of the Governing Council of Iraq. He was ethnically Kurdish.
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Tariq Aziz
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- Studied literary studies
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- politicianstatespersonjournalistdiplomat
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Tariq Aziz was an Iraqi politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister (1979–2003), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1983–1991) and a close advisor of President Saddam Hussein. Their association began in the 1950s when both were activists for the then-banned Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He was both an Arab nationalist and a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
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Nouri al-Maliki
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- politician
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Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki, also known as Jawad al-Maliki (جواد المالكي), is an Iraqi politician and leader of the Islamic Dawa Party since 2007. He served as the Prime Minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014 and as Vice President from 2014 to 2015 and again from 2016 to 2018.
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Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
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- minister of informationpoliticianjournalistdiplomat
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Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf is an Iraqi former diplomat and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 2001. He came to worldwide prominence around the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Minister of Information under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, acting as spokesman for the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and Saddam's government. He has also been nicknamed Baghdad Bob or Comical Ali (a play on "Chemical Ali") for his notable and colorful television appearances as the Information Minister of Iraq.
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Fuad Masum
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- philosopherpoliticianlawyer
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Muhammad Fuad Masum is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the seventh president of Iraq from 24 July 2014 to 2 October 2018. He was elected as president following the 2014 parliamentary election. Masum is the second non-Arab president of Iraq, succeeding Jalal Talabani, also Kurdish, and was a confidant of Talabani.
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Abdul Rahman Al-Sumait
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- physicianpatron of the artsphilanthropist
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Dr. Abd Al-Rahman bin Hamood Al-Sumait was an Islamic scholar, medical practitioner and humanitarian from Kuwait. He was known for his philanthropic works in more than 29 African countries.
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Adil Abdul-Mahdi
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- politicianeconomist
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Adil Abdul-Mahdi al-Muntafiki is an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq from October 2018 until May 2020. Abdul-Mahdi is an economist and was one of the vice presidents of Iraq from 2005 to 2011. He formerly served as Minister of Finance in the Interim government and Oil Minister from 2014 to 2016.
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Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani
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- politicianprime minister
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Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani is an Iraqi politician who has been the Prime Minister of Iraq since 27 October 2022. Prior to his premiership, he held a number of ministerial positions; namely, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, acting Minister of Industry and Minerals, acting Minister of Trade, acting Minister of Migration and the Displaced, acting Minister of Finance, acting Minister of Agriculture, and Minister of Human Rights. Furthermore, he has also held the position of Governor of Maysan, and Mayor of Amarah.
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Muntadhar al-Zaidi
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- humanitarianpoliticianwriterpeace activistjournalist
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Muntadhar al-Zaidi is an Iraqi broadcast journalist who served as a correspondent for Iraqi-owned, Egyptian-based Al-Baghdadia TV. As of February 2011, al-Zaidi works with a Lebanese TV channel.
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Adnan Khayr Allah
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- politician
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Colonel General Adnan Khairallah was an Iraqi military officer and Saddam Hussein's brother-in-law (Sajida Talfah's brother and Khairallah Talfah's son) and cousin. He held several titles and was a member of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council. He also served as the Defence Minister of Iraq from 1979 until his death a decade later, being appointed days after Saddam Hussein succeeded to the Presidency.
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Hadi Al-Amiri
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- politician
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Hadi al-Amiri is an Iraqi politician who is the head and secretary general of the Badr Organization, a Shiite political party and paramilitary organization based in Iraq.
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Faiq Al Sheikh Ali
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- writerpolitician
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Faiq Al Sheikh Ali is an Iraqi lawyer and politician who served as a Member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq From 2014 and is the Secretary-General of the People's Party for Reform. In parliament, he was a member of the Judiciary (Legal) Committee. He led the Civilized Alliance for the 2018 Iraqi parliamentary election. He boycotted the 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election. after the suspension of his immunity by the Iraqi Parliament in 2019.
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Ahmad Al-Basheer
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- television directorjournalistcomedian
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Ahmed Albasheer is an Iraqi comedian, journalist, and director, best known as the creator and host of the weekly political satire show Albasheer Show. He was named one of the twenty most influential people in the Arab world by the Global Influence Research Centre.
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Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi
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- civil servantpolitician
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Mohammed Tawfik Allawi is an Iraqi politician who was the Iraqi Prime Minister-designate in 2020, and twice Minister of Communications in the Al Maliki government from May 2006 until August 2008 and from 2010 to 2012. Both times he resigned from his position in protest against al-Maliki's sectarian agenda and political interference. He was nominated to serve as Prime Minister of Iraq in February 2020, but withdrew his nomination after Parliament failed to reach a quorum.
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Leyla Qasim
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- politician
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Leyla Qasim was a Feyli Kurdish activist against the Iraqi Ba'ath regime who was executed in Baghdad. She is known as a national martyr among the Kurds.
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Ibrahim Ahmad
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- poetnovelistpoliticianwriterjournalist
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Ibrahim Ahmad was an Iraqi Kurdish writer, novelist, jurist and translator who founded the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in 1975. He is the father-in-law of Jalal Talabani and Abdul Latif Rashid through both of his daughters.
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Rizgar Mohammed Amin
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- judge
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Rizgar Mohammed Amin is the former chief judge of the Iraqi Special Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial. He is the only judge whose name was revealed on the trial's opening on 19 October 2005, the names of the other four judges and all but two of his four colleagues faces not allowed to be shown during the televised portions of the trial.(Telegraph.co.uk – 12:30AM GMT 15 January 2006)
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Fuad al-Rikabi
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- civil engineerpolitician
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Fuad al-Rikabi was an Iraqi politician and the founder of the Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. Al-Rikabi became the Secretary of Iraqi Regional Command of the Ba'ath Party in 1954 and held the post until 1959. Throughout his term of leadership, the Iraqi Regional Branch expanded its membership and became a leading party in Iraq's political landscape. Following the 14 July Revolution of 1958 which toppled the monarchy, al-Rikabi was appointed Minister of Development in Abd al-Karim Qasim's unity government.
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Khaled al-Obaidi
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- politician
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Khaled Yassin al-Obaidi is an Iraqi politician who served as the defense minister of Iraq from 2014 to 2016.
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Fuad Hussein
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- In 1971 graduated with Bachelor of Education
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- politicianpolitical scientist
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Fuad Mohammed Hussein is an Iraqi Kurdish politician from the Kurdistan Democratic Party who is the current Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was previously the Minister of Finance in the Government of Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
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Naji Sabri
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- politicianwriterjournalistdiplomat
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Naji Sabri Ahmad Al-Hadithi is an Iraqi former politician who served as the Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz
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- politicianjudgeuniversity teacherwriterdiplomat
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Abdul Rahman al-Bazzaz was an Iraqi politician, reformist and writer who served as prime minister of Iraq from 1965 to 1966 and as the interim president in 1966.
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Mahmoud al-Sarkhi
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- In 1987 graduated with bachelor's degree in civil engineering
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- civil engineermarji'ʿālim
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Sayyid Mahmoud al-Hasani al-Sarkhi is a prominent Iraqi Shia Marja'. He was known for his opposition to US and Iranian interference in Iraq.
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Ahmad Mukhtar Baban
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- politician
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Ahmad Mukhtar Baban was Prime Minister of Iraq under the Kingdom of Iraq in 1958, and the first Kurd to hold the position.
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Mohammad Mustafa
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- 1972-1976 graduated with bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
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- business executivepoliticianeconomist
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Mohammad Abdullah Mohammad Mustafa is a Palestinian economist and politician who is the current prime minister of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority. He previously served as the Chairman of the Board of the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF), Senior Economic Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas and an Independent member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Previously, he had served as Deputy Prime Minister of Palestine (15th and 16th governments; 2013–2014) and as Minister of National Economy of Palestine (16th government, 2014).
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Ahmad Awad Bin Mubarak
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- diplomatpolitician
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Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak is a Yemeni politician who has been the prime minister of Yemen since 5 February 2024. Before his appointment as Prime Minister, he was the former Foreign Minister of Yemen, and before that he served as Ambassador of Yemen to the United States.
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Saleh al-Mutlaq
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- politician
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Saleh Muhammed al-Mutlaq is an Iraqi politician who is the head of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, the fifth largest political list in Iraq's parliament. From 21 December 2010 to 11 August 2015, he was one of the three deputy prime ministers of Iraq.
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Sinan Antoon
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- film directorpoetwritertranslatoruniversity teacher
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Sinan Antoon, is an Iraqi poet, novelist, scholar, and literary translator. He has been described as "one of the most acclaimed authors of the Arab world." Alberto Manguel described him as "one of the great fiction writers of our time.” He is an associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.
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Mohammad Yaqoobi
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- cleric
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Ayatollah Mohammad al-Yaqoobi is a prominent Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja'. He is the second most widely followed Marja' in Iraq, the most widely followed being Ali al-Sistani. As well as heading the Al-Sadr Religious University in Najaf, he established one of the largest women's Hawzas in Iraq, and oversees many charitable organisations within Iraq. He is an active figure within Iraqi politics, and is considered by the Hawza to be the spiritual successor of Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr and the school of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, with the former famously naming Yaqoobi his successor in an audio recording.
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Saadi Yousef
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- In 1954 graduated with licentiate in Arabic literature
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- writerjournalistpoet
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Saadi Youssef was an Iraqi author, poet, journalist, publisher, and political activist. He published thirty volumes of poetry in addition to seven books of prose.
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Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi
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- politician
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Baqir Jabr Al-Zubeidi, also known as Bayan Jabr Solagh (Arabic: بيان باقر صولاغ, romanized: Bayān Bāqir Sūlāġ), is an Iraqi politician and former commander of the Badr Brigades who served as the Finance Minister of Iraq in the government of Nouri al-Maliki. He served as Minister of Interior, in charge of the police, in the Iraqi Transitional Government and was Minister of Housing and Reconstruction of the Iraqi Governing Council. He is also a senior member of the Shi'a United Iraqi Alliance as well as a leader in the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).
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Saad Maan
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- spokesperson
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Major General Saad Maan Ibrahim Jassim al-Musawi is a senior Iraqi Ground Forces officer serving as the Director of the Department of Relations and Information.
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Salam Pax
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- writertranslatorbloggerjournalist
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Salam Pax is the pseudonym of Salam Abdulmunem, aka Salam al-Janabi (Arabic: سلام الجنابي), under which he became the "most famous blogger in the world" during and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Along with a massive readership, his site "Where is Raed?" received notable media attention. The pseudonym consists of the word for "peace" in Arabic (salām) and in Latin (pax). His was one of the first instances of an individual's blog having a wide audience and impact.
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Naziha al-Dulaimi
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- politicianphysician
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Naziha Jawdat Ishg al-Dulaimi was an early pioneer of the Iraqi feminist movement. She was a co-founder and the first president of the Iraqi Women's League, the first woman minister in modern Iraq history, and the first woman cabinet minister in the Arab world.
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Ali Salih al-Sa'di
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- civil servant
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Ali Salih al-Sa'di was an Iraqi politician. He was General Secretary of the Iraqi branch of the Baath Party from the late 1950s until the November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état. From February 8, 1963 (Ramadan Revolution) until the November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état, he was deputy prime minister under Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, minister of the interior and as commander of the National Guard (Al-Haras al-Watani).
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Salameh Hammad
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- politician
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Salameh Hammad is a Jordanian politician who has served as Minister of the Interior in the government of Jordan a number of times. He held the position from 1993 to 1995, from 1995 to 1996, from 2015 to 2016, from 2016 to 2017 and lastly from May 2019 until October 2020.
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Hashim Jasin
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- 1939-.. (age 86)
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- ʿālimpolitician
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Hashim bin Jasin is a Malaysian politician from the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition. He has served as the 4th Spiritual Leader of PAS since October 2016 after the death of his predecessor Haron Din in September 2016 and its State Commissioner of Perlis from 1991 to 2013. Besides, he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Arau after his victory in the 1998 Arau by-elections until the 1999 general election in November 1999 and Member of the Perlis State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Sanglang from November 1999 to the 2013 general election in May 2013.
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Azzam al-Ahmad
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- politician
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Azzam al-Ahmad is a Palestinian politician, economist and diplomat. He holds a BA in economics from Baghdad University and has held various significant positions throughout his career. He was the head of the From 1971 to 1974, he served as the head of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) in Ba'athist Iraq, later becoming the deputy head of the GUPS Executive Committee from 1974 to 1980.
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Medhat al-Mahmoud
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- lawyerjudge
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Medhat al-Mahmoud is an Iraqi retired judge who served as the former head of the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council and of the Federal Supreme Court. He retired in March 2021.
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Ahmad Obeidat
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- politician
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Ahmad Obeidat is a former Jordanian politician and senior member of the Obeidat family who served as the 26th Prime Minister of Jordan from 10 January 1984 to 4 April 1985. He was born in Hartha, Irbid 18 November 1938.
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Taha Baqir
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- assyriologistwriterarchaeologistanthropologistlinguist
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Taha Baqir was an Iraqi Assyriologist, author, cuneiformist, linguist, historian, and former curator of the National Museum of Iraq.
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Jamal Al-Karboli
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- politician
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Jamal Naser Delli Ahmed Al-Karboli is an Iraqi activist and politician, head of the National Movement for Development and Reform party and the Iraqi List coalition in the Council of Representatives of Iraq.
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Ali Bader
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- writernovelistpoetjournalist
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Ali Bader is an Iraqi novelist and a script writer, regarded as the most significant writer to emerge in Arabic world in the last decade. author of eighteen works of fiction, and several works of non-fiction. His best-known works include Papa Sartre, The Tobacco Keeper, The Running after the Wolves, and The Sinful Woman, several of which have won awards. His novels are quite unlike any other fictions in Arabic world of our day, as they blend character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, and explicit language. Bader was born in Baghdad, where he studied western philosophy and French literature. He now lives in Brussels.
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Saadoun al-Dulaimi
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- military personnelpolitician
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Saadoun al-Dulaimi is an Iraqi politician, a current MP, ex-minister of culture, and ex-minister of defence of Iraq for two terms.
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Sinan Al Shabibi
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- In 1966 graduated with Bachelor of Economics
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- academiceconomist
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Sinan Al-Shabibi was an Iraqi economist who served as the governor of the Central Bank of Iraq from September 2003 to October 2012.
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Humam Hamoudi
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- politician
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Humam Hamoudi is one of the most important figures in Iraqi politics. He is a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq representing the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA). Hamoudi is leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council.
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Driss Dahak
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- judgepoliticiandiplomat
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Driss Dahak is a Moroccan civil servant, and diplomat. He held the cabinet position of General Secretary of the Government from 2008 to 2017, under prime ministers Abbas El Fassi and Abdelilah Benkirane.
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Naïm Kattan
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- short story writerjournalistliterary criticwriternovelist
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Naïm Kattan, OC CQ FRSC was a Canadian novelist, essayist and critic of Iraqi Jewish origin. He was the author of more than 30 books, translated into several languages.
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Basil Al Bayati
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- writerarchitect
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Basil Al Bayati is an Iraqi-born architect and designer who has lived and practiced for the most part in Europe, in particular, London and who Neil Bingham, in his book 100 Years of Architectural Drawing: 1900–2000, has described as "an architect in whom East meets West." Al Bayati is considered to be one of the most important names in metaphoric architecture, an area he was at the forefront of pioneering, which uses analogy and metaphor as a basis for architectural inspiration as well as the "exploration of geometric and design patterns found in nature".
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Abdul Jabbar Al Rifai
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- Studied in 1975
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- writerphilosopherintellectual
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Abdul Jabbar Al Rifai is an Iraqi theologian, and professor of Islamic philosophy, born in Dhi Qar, Iraq, 1954. He obtained several academic degrees, including: a PhD degree cum laude in Islamic philosophy – 2005, a master's degree of Islamic Ilm Al-Kalam – 1990, a bachelor's degree in Islamic studies – 1988, and an agricultural art diploma in 1975. He has a philosophical vision on religious reformation and religious thinking approaches. "The Vatican's Pontifical Institute of Rome" devoted its yearbook to the Contemporary Islamic Issues Magazine in 2012, in recognition of its mission in building new Ilm Al-Kalam -study of fundamental Islamic beliefs and doctrines- and in the philosophy of religion in Arabic, and acknowledged it as the most important periodic publications specialized in religions in Arabic language. Al Rifai founded the Contemporary Islamic Issues Magazine and he is its chief editor. It is an intellectual quarterly magazine that focuses on building the philosophy of religion and the Modern Ilm Al-Kalam, founded around 25 years ago, and continues to be published today.
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Donny George Youkhanna
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- prehistorianassyriologistuniversity teacherwriteranthropologist
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Donny George Youkhanna was an Iraqi-Assyrian archaeologist, anthropologist, author, curator, and scholar, and a visiting professor at Stony Brook University in New York.
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Lamia Al Kilani
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- In 1957 graduated with bachelor's degree in archaeology
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- archaeologist
- Biography
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Lamia Al-Gailani Werr was an Iraqi archaeologist specialising in ancient Mesopotamian antiquities.
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Raed Jarrar
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- architectwriterengineerpeace activist
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Raed Jarrar is an Arab-American architect, blogger, and political advocate based in the U.S. Capital Washington, DC.
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Aiham Alsammarae
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- politician
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Aiham Alsammarae is a nationalistic, Sunni Muslim, Iraqi politician who served as Minister of Electricity from August 2003 until May 2005. He has been an active member of the Iraqi National List (headed by Iyad Allawi) and has fought hard for political reconciliation among Iraq's political parties as well as against the policy of de-Ba'athification, since his resignation as Minister of Electricity. Previously, he was a prominent member of the Iraqi Opposition and lived in exile in the United States for over 30 years.
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Nizar Hamdoon
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- diplomatpolitician
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Nizar Hamdoon was Iraq's ambassador to United States from 1984 to 1988 and to the United Nations from 1992 to 1998. He was also the deputy Foreign Minister from 1988 to 1992 and undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry from 1999 to his retirement in 2001.
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Amal al-Jubouri
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- writertranslatorpoetjournalist
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Amal Al-Jubouri is an Iraqi writer, poet, translator, journalist and publisher.
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Qasim Abid Muhammad Hammadi al-Fahadawi
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- politician
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Qasim Mohammad Abid Hammadi al-Fahadawi is an Iraqi politician and businessman who is the current Minister of Electricity in the Al Abadi Government, and who previously served as the Governor of Anbar from April 2009 to August 2013.
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ʿImād ʿAbd al-Salām Raʾūf
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- In 1970 studied history
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- historianuniversity teacher
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Imad Abdul Salam Raouf was an Iraqi historian, investigator, and thinker.
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Nisrin Barwari
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- politician
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Nisrin Barwari is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who acted as Iraqi Minister for Municipalities and Public Works following the US occupation of Iraq in 2003 and held it until 2006.
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Jamal Nebez
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- writerlinguistmathematician
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Jamal Nebez was a Kurdish linguist, mathematician, politician, author, translator and writer. He studied Islamic law, philosophy, theology, physics and mathematics at the University of Baghdad in the 1950s. In 1956, he prepared a stenciled script on algebra and in 1960, succeeded in publishing the first physics book in Kurdish, including a rich glossary of Kurdish terms pertaining to physics and mathematics. He translated several literary works, including works of Nikolai Gogol and William Shakespeare into Kurdish. He also wrote and published several books on a variety of topics. Most of the books are mainly about topics related to Kurds.
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Malik Dohan al-Hassan
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- In 1947 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
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- politician
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Malik Dohan al-Hassan was an Iraqi politician and academician, who served as Minister of Culture and Information in 1967, headed the Iraqi Bar Association in 2003, and was the Minister of Justice in the Iraqi Interim Government in 2004.
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Hisham N. Ashkouri
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- architect
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Hisham N. Ashkouri is a Boston and New York-based architect and urban designer
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Ali Aldabbagh
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- politicianwriterengineerbusinessperson
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Ali Aldabbagh is an Iraqi engineer, businessman and politician who served as government spokesman until November 2012.
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Yanar Mohammed
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- Studied in 1984
- Studied in 1993
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- politicianjournalistceramicistarchitectwriter
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Yanar Mohammed is a prominent Iraqi feminist who was born in Baghdad. She is a co-founder and the director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, and serves as the editor of the newspaper Al-Mousawat (Equality). She started the first shelters for women in Iraq since 2003, protecting them from "honor killing" and sex-trafficking, a network that expanded to 11 houses in 5 cities in 2018. Her shelters saved hundreds of vulnerable women in 16 years.
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Salman Aljumaili
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- politician
- Biography
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Salman Aljumaili is an Iraqi politician, and Iraq's Planning Minister from 2014 to 2018.
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Shatha Abdul Razzak Abbousi
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- teacherpolitical activist
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Shatha Abdul Razzak Abbousi is an Iraqi women's rights activist.
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Hanaa Edwar
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- journalist
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Hanaa Edwar is an Iraqi women's rights activist. She is the founder and general secretary of Iraqi Al-Amal Association, and co-founder of the Iraqi Women's Network.
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Kamal Bani Hani
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- academic
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Kamal Eddin Hussein Ali Bani Hani is a Jordanian gastrointestinal surgeon and the former president of Hashemite University.
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Hayat Charara
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- writernovelistactor
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Hayat Sharara was an Iraqi writer, translator and educator.
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Ghanim Al-Jumaily
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- diplomatscientist
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Ghanim Alwan Al-Jumaily is the ambassador of Iraq to Saudi Arabia, appointed by the interim government of Iraq in 2008. He first served as Iraq's ambassador to Japan in 2004. He has four children, Anas, Youssra, Mariam and Omar.
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Anne Nafi Aussi
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- engineerpolitician
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Ann Nafi Aussi Balbol is an Assyrian politician from Iraq. She was the former minister of Construction and Housing in the Iraqi government from 2016 to 2018.
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Mushtak Al-Atabi
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- academic
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Professor Mushtak Al-Atabi is a professor of mechanical engineering and currently the provost and CEO of Heriot-Watt University, Malaysia. His research focuses on thermofluids, renewable energy, biomechanical engineering, and engineering education. He is an Honorary Chair at the School of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Birmingham and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering Science & Technology. He has published three books, Think Like an Engineer, Shoot the Boss, and Driving Performance. He has numerous research publications, and has received various awards and honours. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE) and a member of the executive committee of the Global Engineering Deans Council.
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Abdul Rahman Mustafa
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- politician
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Abdul Rahman Mustafa, The Kurdish mayor-governor of Kirkuk, was elected in 2003 by multiethnic Kirkuk City Council under supervision of Coalition Provisional Authority in Post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. Has a law degree from Baghdad University. Visited Dallas, Texas as part of partners for peace, an International Goodwill agreement with Dallas.
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Abdul Jerri
- Years
- 1932-.. (age 93)
- Occupations
- mathematiciantheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Abdul Jabbar Hassoon Jerri is an Iraqi American mathematician, most recognized for his contributions to Shannon Sampling Theory, Its Generalizations, Error Analysis, and Historical Reviews, and in particular his establishment in 2002 of the journal Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing (STSIP- ISSN 1530-6429) with over thirty top international experts as its editors, besides establishing its Sampling Publishing, also his contribution to the general understanding of the Gibbs Phenomenon, where he wrote the first book ever on the subject, published by Springer - Verlag, then he followed it by editing another book on Advances in Gibbs Phenomenon published by Sampling Publishing.
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Jalila al-Salman
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- teacherhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Jalila Mohammed Ridha al-Salman is a Bahraini teacher and vice president of the Bahrain Teachers' Association (BTA). Due to her role in the Bahraini uprising, she was arrested for 149 days, allegedly tortured, and sentenced to 3 years in prison. On 21 September 2012, her sentence was reduced to six months' imprisonment by an appeals court.
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Bahira Abd al-Latif
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- writertranslatorpoetjournalist
- Biography
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Bahira Abdulatif Yasin is an Iraqi writer, translator and professor living in Madrid.
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Nuri Ja'far
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- psychologistphilosopheracademic
- Biography
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Nuri Ja'far Ali al-Chalabi, better known as Nuri Ja'far (Arabic: نوري جعفر, romanized: Nūrī Jaʻfar; 1914 – 7 November 1991), was an Iraqi psychologist, philosopher of education, and author. He wrote more than fifty works on pedagogy, psychology, history, philosophy, thought and literature. After graduating from the Higher Teachers' House in Baghdad, he went to the United States, and received a master's degree from Ohio University in 1948 and a doctorate in philosophy from the same university in the following year. He was a student of John Dewey and majored in neuropsychology.
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Narmin Othman
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Narmin Othman is the Iraqi Minister for the Environment in the government of Nouri al-Maliki, a post she also held in the Iraqi Transitional Government. She was Minister of Women's Affairs in the Iraqi Interim Government and a Minister of Education in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region from 1992.
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Abdulwahab Alamrani
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- diplomatwriter
- Biography
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Abdulwahab Alamrani Yemeni diplomat with the rank of ambassador, writer, author and traveler.
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Andrew Rohan
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- politician
- Biography
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Andrew Baijan Rohan is an Australian politician of Assyrian descent who currently serves on Fairfield City Council. He was previously a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Smithfield for the Liberal Party from 2011 to 2015.
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Omar Fakhri
- Years
- 1934-.. (age 91)
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Dr. Omar Fakhri is an Iraqi medical scientist who is best known for his research in several areas: the role of vitamin K in treating hemorrhagic diathesis in children, the cooperation between antibodies and lymphocytes and their role in immune response, the use of peritoneal macrophages in the treatment of resistant infections in leukemia patients, the effect of electroconvulsive therapy on diabetes and the use of low voltage electrotherapy in the treatment of resistant skin burns, psoriasis, exophthalmos, aplastic anaemia and other diseases.
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Mahdi Abu Deeb
- Biography
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Mahdi Isa Mahdi Abu Deeb is the founder and leader of Bahrain Teachers' Association (BTA), and Assistant Secretary-General of Arab Teachers' Union. Due to his role in the Bahraini uprising, he was arrested, allegedly tortured, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. His sentence was later reduced to five years by an appeals court. Amnesty International designated him a prisoner of conscience.
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Aisha Ghazal Mahdi
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- Graduated with postgraduate diploma
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Aisha Ghazal Mahdi, is an Iraqi politician, member of the Council of Representatives since 2014 representing the Baghdad Governorate with the Muttahidoon between 2014 and 2018 and with National Coalition since 2018, being member of the Services and Constructions Committee. She got a bachelor's degree in Education and a certificate of higher qualification in Management. Previously served as a member of the Baghdad Provincial Council (2009-2014).
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Hatif Janabi
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- poet
- Biography
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Hatif Janabi is an Iraqi poet, translator and author. Born near Babylon in 1952, he studied Arabic language and literature at Baghdad University. He moved to Warsaw, Poland in 1976 for higher studies, eventually obtaining a master's degree in Polish language and literature and a PhD in drama, both from Warsaw University. He has lived in Poland ever since and now teaches Arabic language and literature at Warsaw University. He has also taught at the University of Tizi Ouzou and Indiana University.
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Layla Salih
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- archaeologist
- Biography
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Layla Salih is an Iraqi archaeologist. As Head of the Nineveh Antiquities section in the Iraq State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, she has been responsible for the monitoring, rescue, and documentation of Ancient Near Eastern art and architecture following its destruction by ISIS. She is known for her discovery of one of Esarhaddon's palaces in Nineveh.
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Ferhad Shakely
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- writer
- Biography
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Ferhad Shakely is a prominent Kurdish writer, poet and researcher. He is one of the founders of modern Kurdish poetry in the post-Goran period. He was born in 1951 in the province of Kirkuk in Iraq. He began publishing poetry in 1968. In the early 1970s he studied in the Kurdish department of the Baghdad University. He joined the Kurdish national movement under the leadership of Mustafa Barzany in 1974 and went to Syria in 1975. He lived in Germany from Autumn 1977 to Summer 1978. Finally he settled in Sweden in the same year. In 1981, after studying for one year at the University of Stockholm, he went to Uppsala University where he studied Iranian languages. He is now teaching in the same university. He published a Swedish-Kurdish Journal between 1985 and 1989 called Svensk-Kurdisk Journal. Moreover, he published a literary Kurdish magazine, Mamosta-y Kurd (31 issues) between 1985 and 1996. In 1992, he published Kurdish nationalism in Mam and Zin of Ahmad Khani, a literary history that was translated into Swedish, Turkish and Arabic. Many of his poems have been translated into Persian, Arabic, Norwegian, Swedish, English, French, Italian, Icelandic and Danish.
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Aqeel Al Mosawi
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- physician
- Biography
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Aqeel Mohamed Saleh al-Mosawi is a Bahraini novelist, photographer and consultant endodontist.
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Adil Shamoo
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 84)
- Occupations
- biochemist
- Biography
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Adil E. Shamoo is an Iraqi biochemist with an interest in biomedical ethics and foreign policy. He is currently a professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Maryland.
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Fadhil Assultani
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- writerliterary editorpoetjournalist
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Fadhil Assultani is an Iraqi poet, translator and journalist. He has lived in London since 1994, and works as an editor of cultural department at the daily London- based newspaper Asharqalawsat. He has published several books of poetry and translation. Some of his poems were translated into Germany, Spanish, Kurdish, Persian and English.
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Bahija Khalil
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- archaeologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Bahija Khalil was an Iraqi Assyriologist and director of the Iraq Museum from 1983 to 1989. She was the first woman director of the museum.
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Emad Zaki Yehya
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- writerjournalistacademic
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Emad Zaki Yehya, was born in Baghdad. He was an Iraqi petroleum engineer, author, scholar, and a PhD lecturer at Simón Bolívar University in Caracas, Venezuela
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Salman Hadi al-Tou'ma
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- historian
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Sayyid Salman Hadi Tumah, is an Iraqi poet, writer, and historian.
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Venus Faiq
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- translatorpoeteditorwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Venus Faiq is an Iraqi-Kurdish and Dutch writer, poet, translator, editor, and journalist. Her works includes poetry, articles, in both Kurdish and Arabic languages, as well as working as a volunteer translator for the refugee organization in the Dutch city of Rijswijk.
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Ali Ibrahim Jama
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Ali Ibrahim Jama, also known as Ali Baghdadi, is a Somali central banker who has been Governor of the Bank of Somaliland since 5 July 2018.
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Mohammad Saber Ismail
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dr. Mohammad Saber Ismail is an Iraqi Kurdish diplomat and politician from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. He was Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva from 2013 to 2016. He was nominated by the PUK in August 2018 as their candidate to succeed Fuad Masum as President of Iraq.
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William Ishaya
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Dr. William Ishaya is an Iraqi diplomat and is currently the Deputy Permanent Representative - Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations in New York.
