Rahim Alhaj

Rahim Alhaj

male
Rahim AlHaj is an Iraqi oud musician and composer.
Avi Shlaim

Avi Shlaim

male, 64 years old
Avi Shlaim (born October 31, 1945 in Baghdad) is an Israeli-British dual citizen and historian and identifies ethnically as an Iraqi Jew. He is...
Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash

Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash

female, 56 years old
Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash is an American-educated Iraqi scientist, dubbed Mrs. Anthrax by the U.S. government. Ammash was number 53 on the Pentagon's...
David Sassoon

David Sassoon

male, deceased (1864)
David Sassoon (1792 - 1864) was a prominent Bombay (now Mumbai) businessman and philanthropist of Iraqi origin. He was born in Baghdad into a...
Sharif Ali bin Al-Hussein

Sharif Ali bin Al-Hussein

male, 53 years old
Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein was born in 1956, in Baghdad, Iraq as a member of the Hashemite House. He is currently a Pretender to the Iraqi throne...
Elie Kedourie

Elie Kedourie

male, deceased (1992)
Elie Kedourie C.B.E., FBA (25 January 1926-29 June1992) was a British historian of the Middle East. He wrote from a conservative perspective,...
Alon Ben-Meir

Alon Ben-Meir

male, 72 years old
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir (born 1937) is a professor of international relations and Middle Eastern Studies at The New School and at New York University and...
Sami Michael

Sami Michael

male, 83 years old
Sami Michael (born 1926) is an Israeli author and the president of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel. He was born as Sallah Menasse in...
Ziryab

Ziryab

male, deceased (857)
Abu l-Hasan ‘Ali Ibn Nafi‘, was a poet, a musician and singer and one of the most famous gourmands at the Umayyad court in Córdoba in Spain. Histo...

Naïm Kattan

male, 81 years old
Naïm Kattan is a Canadian novelist, essayist and critic. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, he studied at the University of Baghdad from 1945 until 1947 and a...