97 Notable alumni of
University of Baghdad
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The University of Baghdad is 483rd in the world, 97th in Asia, and 1st in Iraq by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 97 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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- military personneljournalistpolitician
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Uday Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician 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 and Iraq Football Association, and head of the Fedayeen Saddam.
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Qusay Hussein
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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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. Qusay and his brother Uday were killed in a U.S. raid in Mosul.
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Abdurrahman Wahid
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- politicianjournalist
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Abdurrahman Wahid, though more colloquially known as Gus Dur (listen), was an Indonesian politician and Islamic religious leader who served as the 4th 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. He had 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 the only president of Indonesia to have had physical disabilities.
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Jalal Talabani
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- politicianlawyerjurist
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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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- diplomatjournalistpolitician
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Tariq Aziz was an Iraqi politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs 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. Leading the Islamic Dawa Party since 2007, he served as Iraqi prime minister from 2006 to 2014 and as Iraqi vice president from 2014 to 2015 and again from 2016 to 2018.
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Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
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- journalistpoliticianminister of informationdiplomat
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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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- politicianphilosopherlawyer
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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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- patron of the artsphysicianphilanthropist
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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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- economistpolitician
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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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Muntadhar al-Zaidi
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- peace activistwriterpoliticianhumanitarianjournalist
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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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Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani
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- Baath Party
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Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani is an Iraqi politician who has been the Prime Minister of Iraq since 27 October 2022. He was the Human Rights Minister of Iraq in the Council of Ministers of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki from 2010 to October 2014. He was Governor of Maysan Province in 2009 and 2010.
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Adnan Khayr Allah
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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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, 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 the head and secretary general of the Badr Organization, a Shiite organization based in Iraq, he heads the Shiite political organization Badr and his armed group, the Badr Brigade.
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Alaa Hussein Ali aljabr
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- politician
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Ala'a Hussein Ali Al-Khafaji Al-Jaber served as the head of a brief puppet government in Kuwait (the "Republic of Kuwait", August 4–8, 1990) during the initial stages of the Gulf War.
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Faiq Al Sheikh Ali
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- politicianwriter
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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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- comedianjournalisttelevision director
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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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- politiciancivil servant
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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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- writerpoliticiannovelistpoetjournalist
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Ibrahim Ahmad was a Kurdish writer, novelist, judge 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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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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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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Gewargis III
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- Studied in 1964
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- presbyter
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Mar Gewargis III served as the 121st Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. On 18 September 2015, the Holy Synod of the Assyrian Church of the East elected Mar Gewargis Sliwa to succeed the late Mar Dinkha IV as the head of the Church. On 27 September 2015, he was formally consecrated and enthroned as Catholicos-Patriarch.
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Fuad al-Rikabi
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- politician
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Fuad al-Rikabi was an Iraqi politician and a 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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Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz
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- diplomatwriteruniversity teacherjudgepolitician
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Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz was an Iraqi politician, reformist and writer. He was a pan-Arab nationalist and served as the Dean of Baghdad Law College and later as Prime Minister of Iraq. Al-Bazzaz main political project was the professionalization of the government through increasing access to civilian expertise. That civic agenda came at the expense of the military. Al-Bazzaz was charged by the Ba'athist-dominated government of participation in activities against the government and he was tortured and imprisoned. Al-Bazzaz was finally released because of illness in 1970 and moved to London for treatment before later dying in Baghdad on 28 June 1973.
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Fuad Hussein
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- In 1971 graduated with Bachelor of Education
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- political scientistpolitician
- Biography
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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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- journalistwriterpoliticiandiplomat
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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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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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Mahmoud al-Sarkhi
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- Graduated with civil engineering studies
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- civil engineer'ālim
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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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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 directorpoetnovelistwriter
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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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- journalistwriterpoet
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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 a 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 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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Salam Pax
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- journalistbloggertranslatorwriter
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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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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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Naziha al-Dulaimi
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- physicianpolitician
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Naziha Jawdet Ashgah 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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Medhat al-Mahmoud
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- judgelawyer
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Medhat al-Mahmoud is the former head of the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council and is the 1st Chief Justice of Iraq. He has served in this capacity since 2005 to 2017.
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Azzam al-Ahmad
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- politician
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Azzam al-Ahmad received a BA in economics from Baghdad University. He was the head of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) in Iraq from 1971 to 1974, deputy head of GUPS Executive Committee from 1974 to 1980, Palestine Liberation Organization ambassador to Iraq from 1979 to 1994. He was also a Fatah-RC member from 1989 and is a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council representing the Jenin Governorate as a Fatah candidate. On 13 October 2022 he became one of the Palestinian reconciliation agreement signatories.
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Taha Baqir
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- anthropologistwriterassyriologistlinguistarchaeologist
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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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Ahmad Obeidat
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- politician
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Ahmad Obeidat is a former Jordanian politician 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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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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- journalistpoetnovelistwriter
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Ali Bader is an Iraqi novelist, poet, poetry translator, script writer, critic, 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. In addition to his work as an author, he is also journalist. He is working as Editor-in-Chief of Eurolitkrant an interdisciplinary and literary journal. https://eurolitkrant.com/IndexEn.aspx.
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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-Hars al-Qawmi).
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Ahmad Awad Bin Mubarak
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- politiciandiplomat
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Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak is a Yemeni politician who has been the prime minister of Yemen since 5 February 2024. He is also the current Foreign Minister of Yemen. He was previously the Ambassador of Yemen to the United States.
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Saadoun al-Dulaimi
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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Saadoun al-Dulaimi is an Iraqi politician. He served two terms as minister of defence, and one term as minister of culture.
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Sinan Al Shabibi
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- In 1966 graduated with Bachelor of Economics
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- international forum participantacademiceconomist
- Biography
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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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Driss Dahak
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- diplomatpoliticianjudge
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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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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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Naïm Kattan
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- writerliterary criticjournalistshort story writeressayist
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Naïm Kattan, was a Canadian novelist, essayist and critic of Iraqi Jewish origin. He is the author of more than 30 books, translated into several languages.
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Donny George Youkhanna
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- writeruniversity teacherassyriologistprehistoriananthropologist
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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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Basil Al Bayati
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- architectwriter
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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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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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Abdul Jabbar Al Rifai
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
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- philosopherintellectual
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Abdul Jabbar Al Rifai is an Iraqi 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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Aiham Alsammarae
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- politician
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Aiham Alsammarae is a nationalistic, Sunni, 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 U.S. for over 30 years.
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Raed Jarrar
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- peace activistengineerwriterarchitect
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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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Amal al-Jubouri
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- journalistpoettranslatorwriter
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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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Mohammad Mustafa
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- economistbusiness executiveinternational forum participantpolitician
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Dr. Mohammad Mustafa is a Palestinian economist, Chairman of the Board of the Palestine Investment Fund, Senior Economic Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas and an Independent member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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Nizar Hamdoon
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- politiciandiplomat
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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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ʿImād ʿAbd al-Salām Raʾūf
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- In 1970 studied history
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- university teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Imad Abdul Salam Raouf was an Iraqi historian, investigator, and thinker.
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Shatha Abdul Razzak Abbousi
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- political activistteacher
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Shatha Abdul Razzak Abbousi is an Iraqi women's rights activist. As a member of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, and specifically a member of Iraq's Human Rights Committee, she has worked to pass human rights legislation. She also joined The Pledge for Iraq, a women's rights activist group.
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Nisrin Barwari
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- politician
- Biography
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Nisrin Mustafa Barwari is an Iraqi politician of Kurdish origin 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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Malik Dohan al-Hassan
- Enrolled in the University of Baghdad
- In 1947 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Jamal Nebez
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- linguistwritermathematician
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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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Ali Aldabbagh
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- engineerwriterpoliticianbusinessperson
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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
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- politicianwomen's rights activistceramicistarchitectjournalist
- Biography
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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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Kamal Bani Hani
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- academic
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Kamal bani hani is a gastrointestinal surgeon and the former president of Hashemite University, and previous dean of faculty of medicine at Hashemite University. He also was the dean of faculty of medicine at Jordan University of Science and Technology from September 2008 to October 2010.
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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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Hayat Charara
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- actornovelistwriter
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Hayat Sharara was an Iraqi writer, translator and educator.
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Ghanim Al-Jumaily
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- scientistdiplomat
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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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- politicianengineer
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Ann Nafi Aussi Balbol was the Iraqi minister of construction and housing from 2016-2018. She is of Assyrian origin and was born on (September 23, 1964). She is currently running for the Iraqi parliament under the National Rafidain List.
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Mushtak Al-Atabi
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- academic
- Biography
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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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Jalila al-Salman
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- human rights activistteacher
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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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Abdul Rahman Mustafa
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- politician
- Biography
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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 92)
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- theoretical physicistmathematician
- Biography
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Abdul Jabbar Hassoon Jerri is an Iraqi American mathematician, most recognized for his contributions to Shannon Sampling Theory, It's 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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Bahira Abd al-Latif
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- journalistpoettranslatorwriter
- Biography
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Bahira Abdulatif Yasin is an Iraqi writer, translator and professor living in Madrid.
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Narmin Othman
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- 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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Omar Fakhri
- Years
- 1934-.. (age 90)
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Dr. Omar Fakhri - الدكتور عمر فخري – B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. FRCPath is a 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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Abdulwahab Alamrani
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- writerdiplomat
- Biography
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Abdulwahab Alamrani Yemeni diplomat with the rank of ambassador, writer, author and traveler.
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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 53)
- 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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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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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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Aqeel Al Mosawi
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- physician
- Biography
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Aqeel Mohamed Saleh al-Mosawi is a Bahraini dentist, novelist and photographer. He is best is known for being a consultant endodontist.
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Adil Shamoo
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 83)
- 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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- journalistpoetliterary editorwriter
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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
- university teacherarchaeologist
- 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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- journalistwriteracademic
- Biography
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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
- Biography
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Sayyid Salman Hadi Tumah, is an Iraqi poet, writer, and historian.
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Ali Ibrahim Jama
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- 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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Venus Faiq
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- writereditorpoettranslatorjournalist
- 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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Mohammad Saber Ismail
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- 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.
