Flashcards: Iraqi politicians

Khairallah Talfah (Arabic: خير الله طلفاح‎‎) - Khayr-Allah Telfah - Khairallah Tolfah - Khairallah Tilfah was an Iraqi Ba'ath Party official, and the maternal uncle and father-in-law of Saddam Hussein.

Awad Hamad al-Bandar (Arabic: عواد حمد بندر السعدون‎‎; aka: Awad Hamad Bandar Alsa'doon) (2 January 1945 – 15 January 2007) was an Iraqi chief judge under Saddam Hussein's presidency.

Dr Salim Abdullah al-Jabouri (Arabic:السيدسليم عبدالله الجبوري) (born 12 August 1971) is an Iraqi politician who was elected as the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament on 15 July 2014.

Yusuf Salman Yusuf (Syriac: ܝܘܣܦ ܣܠܡܢ ܝܘܣܦ‎, Arabic: يوسف سلمان يوسف‎‎) better known by his nom de guerre Fahd (Arabic: فهد‎‎), (Baghdad 1901 – 14 February 1949), was an ethnic Assyrian and was one of the first Iraqi communist activists and was first secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party from 1941 until his death on the gallows in 1949.

Rafi' Dahham Mejwel Al-Tikriti (Arabic: رافع دحام مجول التكريتي‎‎; 24 April 1937 – 11 October 1999) was Saddam Hussein's second cousin, Member of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council, Director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, the former Iraqi Ambassador to Turkey, and former Head of the Iraqi Secret Services, which is equivalent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) when conducting domestic activities.

Idris Barzani (1944 – January 31, 1987) was a Kurdish politician in Iraq.

Ammar al-Hakim (Arabic: سید عمار الحكيم‎‎) is an Iraqi cleric and politician who leads the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, which was the largest party in Iraq's Council of Representatives from the 2003 Invasion of Iraq until the 2010 Iraqi elections.

Hamid Majid Mousa (Arabic: حميد مجيد موسى‎‎) is the Secretary General of the Iraqi Communist Party.

Husain Ar-Radi (1924, Najaf – 24 February 1963, Baghdad), also known as Hashiim, 'Ammar, and Salam Adil, was an Iraqi communist politician as well as a poet and painter.

Osama Abdul Aziz al-Nujaifi or Najifi (Arabic: أسامة النجيفي‎‎; born c. 1956 in Mosul) is an Iraqi politician.

Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti (Arabic: سبعاوي إبراهيم التكريتي‎‎), half brother of Saddam Hussein, (27 February 1947 - 8 July 2013) was the leader of the Iraqi secret service, the Mukhabarat, at the time of the 1991 Gulf War.

Rashid Aali al-Gaylani (Arabic: رشيد عالي الكيلاني‎‎, Arabic pronunciation: [raʃiːd ʕaːliː al.keːlaːniː]), (1892 – August 28, 1965), in Arab standard pronunciation Rashid Aali al-Kaylani, also transliterated as Sayyad Rashid Aali al-Gillani, Sayyad Rashid Ali al-Gailani, or sometimes Sayyad Rashid Ali el Keilany ['Sayyad' serves to address higher standing male persons] served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Iraq on three occasions.

Saber Abdel Aziz al-Douri (Arabic: صابر عبد العزيز الدوري‎‎) is a former Iraqi politician and intelligence officer.

Rowsch Nuri Shaways (Kurdish رۆژ نووری شاویس; Arabic روز نورى شاويس) is a Kurdish politician who served as the first Prime Minister of the KDP-controlled part of Kurdistan.

Atheel al-Nujaifi (Arabic: أثيل النجيفي‎‎; Turkish: Esil Nuceyfi; born 1958) is an Iraqi politician who was the Governor of Nineveh Province from April 2009 until May 2015.

Khairuddin bin Saleh bin Abdul Qadir bin Khudhur Al-Hindawi Al-Hassani (Arabic:خيرالدين بن صالح بن عبدالقادر بن خضر الهنداوي الحسني) was an Iraqi poet and a governor of several provinces.

Duraid Mohammed Kashmoula (Arabic: دريد كشمولة‎‎; born 1943) is an Iraqi politician who served as Governor of Nineveh Province from July 2004 to April 2009.

Talib Pasha bin Rajab Al-Naqib Al-Refa'i (Arabic: طالب باشا بن رجب النقيب الرفاعي ) was a known Iraqi politician, who became the first Minister of Interior in Iraq

Abdullah Hussein Mohammed Jebara al-Jubouri (Arabic: عبدالله حسين جبارة‎‎; 1 July 1957 – 29 March 2011) was an Iraqi politician and former soldier who served as the Deputy Governor of Saladin province between 2004 and 2009.

Majid Mahdi Abd al-Abbass al-Nasrawi (Arabic: ماجد نصراوي‎‎; born 1966) is an Iraqi politician who has been the Governor of Basra Province since June 2013.

Adnan al-Zurufi was the US-appointed governor of Najaf Governorate appointed May 2004.

Ahmed Uthman Effendi (also spelled Ahmed Othman) (1879 – December 10, 1946) also known as Ahmed Effendi, (Kurdish: ئه‌حمه‌د عوسمان ئه‌فه‌ندى‎) (Arabic: أحمد عثمان أفندي‎‎) was a Kurdish politician from Erbil who played an important role in shaping events and the direction of public administration in Iraqi Kurdistan in the first half of the twentieth century.

Asaad Abu Gilel al-Taie is the former SCIRI governor of Najaf province, in Iraq.

General Aziz Al-Yasiri was the Secretary General of the Iraqi Democratic Current.

Ahmad Khalaf al-Dulaimi (Arabic: احمد خلف الدليمي‎‎, also Ahmad Khalaf Muhammad al-Dulaimi, Ahmed Khalaf Dheyabi) is an Iraqi politician and was the Governor of Al Anbar province from August 2013 to December 2014.

Tariq Najm al-Abdullah (Arabic: طارق نجم‎‎) (born July, 1945) was the Chief of Staff for Nouri al-Maliki; the previous Prime Minister of Iraq.

Ahmed Abdullah Abid Khalaf al-Jubouri ('Abu Mazin') (Arabic: أحمد عبد الله عابد خلف الجبوري‎‎) (born ~1968) is an Iraqi politician from Salah ad-Din governorate, and a prominent figure in the Baiji area.

Suhaib al-Rawi (Arabic: صهيب الراوي‎‎; born 1966) is an Iraqi politician who is the current Governor of Anbar.

Ann Nafi Aussi Balbol (Arabic: آن نافع اوسي‎‎) is the Iraqi Minister of Construction and Housing, one of the Christian origin born (September 23, 1964) .

Sheik Ahmed Buzaigh Abu Risha (Arabic: أحمد أبو ريشة) is a Sunni leader in the Al-Anbar province, and formerly led the movement of Sunni tribesmen known as the Anbar Salvation Council.

Akeel Al Saffar (عقيل الصفار) is an Iraqi politician.

Mohammed Salem Al-Ghabban (Arabic: محمد سالم الغبّان‎‎, born 1961) is an Iraqi politician, and former Minister of Interior.

Muhammed Amin Zaki Bey, (1880–1948), was a Kurdish writer, historian, Iraqi statesman and politician.

General Georges Hormiz Sada (aka Gewargis or George Hormis; Arabic: كوركيس هرمز ساده, Syriac: ܓܘܪܓܝܣ ܗܪܡܙ ܣܕܐ; born 1941) is an Iraqi of ethnic Assyrian descent, an author, former Iraqi National Security Advisor and retired general officer of the Iraqi Air Force.

Qasim Mohammad Abid Hammadi al-Fahadawi (Arabic: قاسم محمد عبد حمادي الفهداوي‎‎) 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.

Salih Al-Yousify (January, 1918 – 25 June 1981) was a Kurdish Iraqi poet and politician, former minister, and one of the most active members in the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iraq.

Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi (Arabic: أحمد عبد الهادي الجلبي‎‎; 30 October 1944 – 3 November 2015) was an Iraqi politician, a founder of the Iraqi National Congress (INC).

Mohamed Hadid (January 1, 1907 – August 3, 1999) was an Iraqi economist, cabinet minister, and democracy advocate.

Ma'ruf bin Abdul Ghani al Rusafi (1875–1945) was a poet, educationist and literary scholar from Iraq.

Salah Omar Al-Ali (born on 17 July 1938) was a member of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council, Iraqi Minister of Culture and Information from 1968 to 1970, and subsequently ambassador to Sweden, Spain and the United Nations from 1973 to 1981.

Toma Tomas (Syriac: ܬܐܘܡܐ ܬܐܘܡܐܣ‎) also known by his nom de guerre Abu Joseph, was an Chaldean politician and the leader of anti-government communist millitias (al-Ansar) in northern Iraq during the 1960s and 70s.

Abdulsalam Abdullah Mohammad (* 1965) is the current Provincial Council Chairman (PCC) of Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Eifan Saadoun Al Issawi (died 15 January 2013) was an Iraqi politician who was killed in a suicide bombing attack on 15 January 2013.