- Ali Al-Adeeb
Ali al-Adeeb is an Iraqi politician and a senior member of the Islamic Dawa Party. In April 2006 he was tipped by the United Iraqi Alliance as a candidate for the post of Prime Minister, after their original choice, Ibrahim Jaafari, was vetoed by the Kurdistani Alliance and Iraqi Accord Front. Adeeb was born in Karbala in 1946 and went to secondary school in Baghdad. He obtained a degree in Literature and Education from the Baghdad University and taught Psychology.
- Mithal Al-Alusi
Mithal Jamal Hussein al-Alusi, born in 1954, is an Iraqi politician and the leader of the Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation, DPIN. He was elected to the Iraqi Council of Representatives as an independent in the December 2005 election. He is a Sunni Muslim Arab secularist politician and supports a close alliance with the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Israel. Al-Alusi hails from a very prominent Iraqi Sunni family from restive Anbar Province, …
- Ibrahim Ahmad
Ibrahim Ahmad, Ibrahim Ahmed or Ibrahîm Ehmed, was a Kurdish writer, novelist and translator. He was born in Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan and studied Law at the University of Baghdad, graduating in 1937. From 1942 to 1944, he served as a judge in the cities of Irbil and Halabja. In 1939, he, along with Alaaddin Sajadi, founded the Kurdish literary periodical "Gelawêj". He acted as the publisher and the Editor in Chief of that journal.
- Salama Al-Khufaji
Salama al-Khufaji was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. She was appointed on 8 December 2003 to hold the seat formerly held by Aquila al-Hashimi, who was assassinated in September 2003. A Shia Muslim, al-Khufaji was a professor of dentistry at Baghdad University. In May 2004 she survived an assassination attempt, …
- Mohsen Abdel Hamid
Mohsen Abdel Hamid is an Iraqi politician and Islamic scholar who was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council (president, February 2004), created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. Abdel Hamid was born in 1937 in Kirkuk and is of Kurdish background.. He studied Islamic Law in Cairo and returned to Iaq in 1986 to work as a professor at Baghdad University. Abdel Hamid has written over 30 books on interpretation of the Qur'an.
- Rizgar Mohammed Amin
Rizgar Mohammed Amin is the former chief judge of the Iraqi Special Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial. He is the only judge whose identity was revealed on the trial's opening on 19 October 2005, the names and faces of his four colleagues remaining secret. Amin graduated from the Law School of Baghdad University in 1980. He is an ethnic Kurd, though he has no record of political activism, or connections to the "Peshmerga".
- Qassim Daoud
Qassim Abbas Daoud (born April 13, 1949) is an Iraqi scientist and politician. Born in Al Hillah, he graduated from Baghdad University in 1971. He then studied in Britain, earning a doctorate in microbiology and environment in 1982 from the University of Wales. He worked in the United Arab Emirates and at one time was the general secretary of the Iraqi Democratic Movement. Daoud became a minister of state without portfolio in the Iraqi Interim Government in June 2004.
- Nadim Al-Jabiri
Nadim al-Jabiri is an Iraqi politician and the former secretary-general of the Islamic Virtue Party, which at the time was a component of the United Iraqi Alliance until it left in March 2007. He was succeeded as secretary-general by Abd al-Rahim al-Hasini in May 2006. He is a professor of politics at Baghdad University.
- Mohammed A.F. Al-Rawi
Prof. Dr. Mohammed A.F. Al-Rawi ("died July 27, 2003") was a medical specialist, a member of the Baath Party, one of the personal physician of Saddam Hussein, and president of Baghdad University. Note that all highly qualified and skilled physicians had to make rounds at the Ibn Sina hospital in Baghdad, which was a special hospital set aside exclusively for the leadership of the country at the time. His service there, and that of other physicians, …
- Khalil Al-Zahawi
Khalil al-Zahawi (1946 - 25 May, 2007) was one of Iraq's most prominent Arabic calligraphers. An ethnic Kurd and a native of Diyala Governorate, he began studying calligraphy in 1959, and moved to Baghdad in 1963, where he gave his first exhibition in 1965. He later graduated from the Fine Arts Institute of Baghdad, and proceeded to work for the State Directorate for the Plastic Arts in the 1980s. Eventually, he found work as a lecturer at Baghdad University.
- Aref Tayfour
Aref Tayfour is the Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly. A member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was elected to the post by the Assembly on 22 April. He also served as the Deputy President of the National Assembly under the Iraqi Transitional Government. He was born in Dokan, As Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan in 1954. He graduated in law from Baghdad University in 1970. He originally joined the Hiywa Kurdish party before joining the KDP in 1967.
- Mohammed A. Aldouri
Mohammed A. Aldouri (born 1942) was the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations from 2001 to 2003. Born in Baghdad, Aldouri attended Baghdad University and earned a bachelors degree in law in 1964. In 1973, Aldouri received a Ph.D. in public law from France’s Dijon University. He was Dean of the Law College of Baghdad University from 1983 to 1998, while simultaneously serving as a professor of international law.
- Farhad Shakely
Farhad Shakely (born 1951) 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 (At-Ta'mim) in Iraq. He began publishing poetry in 1968. In the early 1970's he studies in the Kurdish department of the Baghdad University. He joined the Kurdish national movement under the leadership of Mustafa Barzany in 1974 and went toSyria in 1975.
- Rafiq Sabir
Rafiq Sabir (Refîq Sabir is a contemporary Kurdish poet. He was born in "Qeladzê" in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1974, he received Bachelor of Arts degree from Baghdad University. He moved to Sweden in 1989. He writes in the sorani dialect. He belongs to the post-Abdulla Goran generation of modernists in Kurdish poetry.
- Baqir Jabr Al-Zubeidi
Baqir Jabr Al-Zubeidi, also known as Bayan Jabr Solagh, is currently serving 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 the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).
- Alaaddin Sajadi
Alaaddin Sajadi or Alauddin Sajjadi was a Kurdish writer, poet and academic. He was born in Iraqi Kurdistan. He finished his religious studies and became a cleric in 1938. He began working in the field of journalism in 1939, and became the Editor-in-Chief of the Kurdish journal "Gelawêj" in 1941. In 1948, he published a journal in Kurdish and Arabic named "Nizar".
- Ziad Abderrazzak Mohammad Aswad
Ziad Abderrazzak Mohammad Aswad was Minister of Higher Education in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003. A Sunni Muslim, he is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and formerly chaired Baghdad University's Department of Petroleum Engineering. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Southern California and University of Oklahoma in the United States.
- Malcolm Sayer
Malcolm Sayer (1916-1970) was a designer of Jaguar cars. He was one of the first engineers to apply principles of aerodynamics to car design. His designs include: * Jaguar C-type (also called XK 120C, due to its being based on the Jaguar XK 120) * Jaguar D-type * Jaguar E-type * Jaguar XJS (although the car launched several years after Sayer's death) Born in Cromer, …
- Samir Habashneh
Samir Habashneh (b. 1951) is the Minister of Interior of Jordan. Born in 1951, Habashneh earned his BSc in agricultural engineering from Baghdad University in 1974. He worked in the Agricultural Cooperative Society and then as a consultant at the Ministry of Youth in 1992. In 1993, he became a deputy in Parliament, representing the southern Governorate of Karak. He was appointed minister of culture in 1995 and became a senator in 2001.
- Imad Sarsam
Dr. Imad Matti Sarsam ("also transliterated: Emad") was a highly reputed Iraqi orthopaedic surgeon, teaching at the Department of Orthopedics in Baghdad University and as assistant professor at the Baghdad Medical College, who was assassinated on August 31, 2004, just three months after his participation in an international conference of shoulder and elbow surgeons in Washington, D.C.. His qualifications included FRCS (UK), D.Sc (Ortho.) and M.B.Ch.B.
- Wafa El-Mullah Al-Howeish
Wafa el-Mullah al-Howeish (born 1975) is rumoured to have married former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as his fourth wife in 2002. There is no firm evidence for this marriage. Wafa is the daughter of Abdul Tawab el-Mullah Howeish, a former minister of military industry in Iraq and Saddam's last deputy Prime Minister. She is a graduate of Baghdad University.
- Nihad A. Hussain
Prof. Nihad Hussain Dr. Nihad A. Hussain is a professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean of Engineering at San Diego State University. He received his B.S. (honors) from Baghdad University in 1962, his M.S. degree from Purdue University in 1963, and his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1969. All his degrees are in Mechanical Engineering.
- Lihadh Al-Gazali
Prof. Lihadh Al-Gazali Dr. Al-Gazali is professor of Clinical Genetics and Pediatrics at the UAE University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. She obtained her MBCHB from Baghdad University and was trained in Pediatrics and then Genetics in UK (Edinburgh and Leeds). Prof. Al-Gazali is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physician and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK. She is member of several international organizations.
- Sinan Antoon
Sinan Antoon Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist and translator. He teaches Arabic culture at New York University. He studied English literature at Baghdad University before moving to the United States after the 1991 Gulf War. He received his Master￢ﾀﾙs degree in Arab Studies at Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Arabic Literature at Harvard University.
- Mohammad Tawfik
Mohammad Tawfik Mohammad graduated from the Academy of fine Arts/ Baghdad University in 1973 and worked for the Iraqi film institute, 1974-78. He has written and directed several documentary, short and feature films. Mohammad is also a regular contributor to Al Hayat, Al Nahar and other Arabic newspapers, writing reviews and film critiques. He has resided in Denmark since 1993 and is a member of the Danish film directors association.
- Ahmad Mosa
- Munsif Raza
Mr. Munsif Raza is the Chief Executive and Managing Director of the Company since September, 1997. He is also a member of the Board Human Resource and Finance Committee. Mr. Raza graduated in Petroleum Engineering from Baghdad University. After a brief stint in the Middle East, he joined the Company as a Production Engineer in 1970. He has extensive experience in Reservoir / Production Engineering and Project Management.
- Wasma Al-Naib
- Ahmed Hussein
- Firas Kaysi
- Ban Kubba
- Hamid al Bayati
Dr. Hamid Al Bayati , was appointed Iraq’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in April 2006. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Al Bayati served for two years, from 2004 to 2006, as Iraq’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Political Affairs and Bilateral Relations. In a related appointment that began in November 2004, he remains the head of the Iraqi Centre for Strategic Studies.
- Emad Bonney
- Advice Offered By Scsu Professor Abba Mehdi
Advice offered by SCSU Professor Abbas Mehdi For more than a decade government officials and reporters throughout the world have sought SCSU Professor Abbas Mehdi�s advice and commentary on Middle East affairs.But throughout the buildup, execution and aftermath of war with his native country, demand for the Baghdad University graduate�s expertise has intensified. It�s been crazy the last two to three months,� Mehdi said between interviews the day U.S. troops arrived in Baghdad.
- J. Steele
J. Steele, " National Museum Begins to Count the Losses ," in The Guardian (UK), May 23, 2003: "... Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, who has just returned from Baghdad, says that security problems are still blocking progress. 'Most museum staff are women, and their families won't allow them to come to work for safety reasons,' he said yesterday.
- Al Bayati
Mr. Al Bayati has published several books in English and Arabic, as well as many articles about politics. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974 from Baghdad University and his master's degree in language and philosophy in 1980 from Cairo University, Egypt. He received his doctorate degree in politics in 1990 from Manchester University, United Kingdom.
- Diana Younan
- Nesreen Barwari
Ms. Nesreen Barwari is currently the Minister of Municipalities and Public Works of Iraq, which is her third national ministerial appointment since 2003. In 2005, she won a seat in the Iraqi Transitional National Assembly. She previously held the post of Minister of Reconstruction and Development in the Kurdistan Regional Government. Her career began with the International Organization for Migration. She has also worked for the United Nations Iraq Relief Coordination Unit.
- Sarmed Yousif
- Sameer Saeed