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Karim Mahdi Salih
Dr. Karim Mahdi Salih is an Iraqi politician who was the Transport Minister of Iraq in the government of Nouri al-Maliki from May 2006 until April 2007. He is a member of the Sadrist Movement within the United Iraqi Alliance. In July, Salih offered his resignation as Transport Minister, along with fellow Sadrist ministers Liwaa Semeism Liwaa Semeism is an Iraqi politician from the Sadrist Movement and minister of state for tourism and archaeology affairs and then, tourism minister in the cabinets of Nouri Maliki. Career A dentist by training, Semeism was appointed minister of s ... and Sa'd Tahir Al-Hashimi. The Agriculture Minister, Ya'rub Nazim al-Abbudi was reported to have been appointed as temporary Transport Minister in his place. Moqtadr al-Sadr was reported to have said the three ministers "''lacked the necessary qualifications and experience to run their ministries''". However he was still in his position four months later [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to Iraq–Jordan border, the southwest and Syria to Iraq–Syria border, the west. The Capital city, capital and largest city is Baghdad. Iraq is home to diverse ethnic groups including Iraqi Arabs, Kurds, Iraqi Turkmen, Turkmens, Assyrian people, Assyrians, Armenians in Iraq, Armenians, Yazidis, Mandaeans, Iranians in Iraq, Persians and Shabaks, Shabakis with similarly diverse Geography of Iraq, geography and Wildlife of Iraq, wildlife. The vast majority of the country's 44 million residents are Muslims – the notable other faiths are Christianity in Iraq, Christianity, Yazidism, Mandaeism, Yarsanism and Zoroastrianism. The official langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nouri Al-Maliki
Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki ( ar, نوري المالكي; born 20 June 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki (), is secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party and was the prime minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014 and the vice president of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. Al-Maliki began his political career as a Shia dissident under Saddam Hussein's in the late 1970s and rose to prominence after he fled a death sentence into exile for 24 years. During his time abroad, he became a senior leader of the Islamic Dawa Party, coordinated the activities of anti-Saddam guerrillas and built relationships with Iranian and Syrian officials whose help he sought in overthrowing Saddam. Al-Maliki worked closely with United States and coalition forces in Iraq following their departure by the end of 2011. Al-Maliki was Iraq's first full-term post-war prime minister. He was appointed by U.S. Armed Forces Coalition leader Michael Douglas Barbero. He and his government succeeded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadrist Movement
The Sadrist Movement ( ar, التيار الصدري ') is an Iraqi Islamic national movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr. The movement draws wide support from across Iraqi society and especially from the Shi'a poor in the country. The most important person in setting the goals and the philosophy of the movement was Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr. A prominent preceding influence had also been Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr. The movement is religious and populist. Its goal is a society ordered by a combination of religious laws and tribal customs. On 13 June 2022, during the 2022 Iraqi political crisis, 74 MPs from Muqtada al-Sadr’s bloc resigned from parliament. 2009 governorate elections During the 2009 Iraqi governorate elections Sadrists ran under the name Independent Free Movement. Results The list received 9.8% of the vote and 43 out of 440 seats, coming third overall to the State of Law Coalition and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq. 2010 parliamentary elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Iraqi Alliance
The National Iraqi Alliance (NIA or INA; ar, الائتلاف الوطني العراقي; transliterated: al-Itilaf al-Watani al-Iraqi), also known as the Watani List, is an Iraqi electoral coalition that contested the 2010 Iraqi legislative election. The Alliance is mainly composed of Shi'a Islamist parties. The alliance was created by the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (the at the time largest Shi'a party) to contest in the January 2005 and December 2005 under the name United Iraqi Alliance (UIA; ar, الائتلاف العراقي الموحد; transliterated: al-I'tilāf al-`Irāqī al-Muwaḥḥad), when it included all Iraq's major Shi'a parties. The United Iraqi Alliance won both those of elections however later fell apart after several major parties (most notably the Sadr Movement) left the alliance due to disputes with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the Supreme Council. The component parties contested the 2009 provincial elections separately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liwaa Semeism
Liwaa Semeism is an Iraqi politician from the Sadrist Movement and minister of state for tourism and archaeology affairs and then, tourism minister in the cabinets of Nouri Maliki. Career A dentist by training, Semeism was appointed minister of state for tourism and archaeology affairs to the first cabinet of Maliki in 2006. He was part of al-Sadr's bloc. He began to serve as tourism minister in the cabinet of Maliki. Personal life His wife is a member of the National Assembly of Iraq and related to Moqtadr al-Sadr. ''Indymedia'', 1 September 2006 References Living people State ministers of Iraq Tourism ministers of Iraq Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq {{Iraq-politician-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sa'd Tahir Al-Hashimi
Saad ( ar, سعد , translit=Saʿd) is a common male Arabic given name which means 'friend / companion'. The name stems from the Arabic verb ( 'to be happy, fortunate or lucky'). ''Saad'' is the stem of variant given names Suad and Sa‘id. It may be a shortened version of Sa'd al-Din, and is not to be confused with it. It is not the same as the single Arabic letter '' ṣād'', which has no intrinsic meaning. It may refer to: Tribal Name * Banu Sa'd, a Saudi tribe First name *Saad Albazei, Saudi Arabian intellectual *Saad Shaddad Al-Asmari, Saudi Arabian runner * Saad Awad, American mixed martial artist of Palestinian descent *Saad Benyamin, Iraqi international football (soccer) player *Saad Eskander, Iraqi-Kurdish academic and researcher * Saad Kamil Al-Fadhli, Kuwaiti football referee * Sa'ad Al-Faqih, Saudi dissident * Saad Haddad, Lebanese military personnel *Saad Hafeez, Danish cricketer * Saad Hariri, Lebanese politician, former Prime Minister of Lebanon *Saad Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ya'rub Nazim Al-Abbudi
Ya'rub ( ar, يعرب, also spelled ''Yarob'',''Ya'rob'', ''Yarrob'', ''Yarab'' or ''Yaarub'') is an ancient Arabic personal name. He is the grandson of Abir being the son of Qahtan and the ancestor of the Himyarite and Sabaean Sabean or Sabaean may refer to: *Sabaeans, ancient people in South Arabia **Sabaean language, Old South Arabian language *Sabians, name of a religious group mentioned in the Quran, historically adopted by: **Mandaeans, Gnostic sect from the marshl ... kings of Yemen.van Donzel, 1994, p. 483. A similar account places Ya'rub as Qahtan's grandson (Ya'rub bin Yashjub bin Qahtan) and holds that he is the forefather of ''al-'Arab al-'Ariba'' ("the arab arabs" or "pure arabs"), who are generally identified with the Qahtanites and its two main tribes, the Himyar and the Kahlan.Prentiss, 2003, p. 172. Some legendary accounts relate that Ya'rub was the first to speak Arabic and that the language was named for him.Crosby, 2007, pp. 74-75.Sperl, 1989, p. 209. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a United States government funded organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Caucasus, and the Middle East where it says that "the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed". RFE/RL is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation supervised by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, an independent government agency overseeing all U.S. federal government international broadcasting services. Daisy Sindelar is the vice president and editor-in-chief of RFE. RFE/RL broadcasts in 27 languages to 23 countries. The organization has been headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, since 1995, and has 21 local bureaus with over 500 core staff and 1,300 stringers and freelancers in countries throughout their broadcast region. In addition, it has 700 employees at its headquarters and corporate office in Washington, D.C. Radio Free Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Herald Tribune
The ''International Herald Tribune'' (''IHT'') was a daily English-language newspaper published in Paris, France for international English-speaking readers. It had the aim of becoming "the world's first global newspaper" and could fairly be said to have met that goal. It published under the name ''International Herald Tribune'' from 1967 to 2013. Early years In 1887, James Gordon Bennett Jr. created a Paris edition of his newspaper the '' New York Herald''. He called it the ''Paris Herald''. When Bennett Jr. died, the paper came under the control of Frank Munsey, who bought it along with its parent. In 1924, Munsey sold the paper to the family of Ogden Reid, owners of the ''New-York Tribune'', creating the '' New York Herald Tribune'', while the Paris edition became the ''Paris Herald Tribune''. By 1967, the paper was owned jointly by Whitney Communications, ''The Washington Post'' and ''The New York Times'', and became known as the ''International Herald Tribune'', or ''IHT'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moqtadr Al-Sadr
Muqtada al-Sadr ( ar, مقتدى الصدر, Muqtadā aṣ-Ṣadr; born 4 August 1974) is an Iraqi politician and militia leader. He is the leader of the Sadrist Movement and the leader of the Peace Companies, a successor to the militia he had previously led during the Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011), American military presence in Iraq, the "Mahdi Army." In 2018, he joined his Sadrist political party to the Alliance Towards Reforms, Saairun alliance, which won the highest number of seats in the 2018 Iraqi parliamentary election, 2018 and 2021 Iraqi parliamentary elections. Al-Sadr is suspected in United States, US news media of having ordered the assassination of rivalling Shia Islam, Shia leader Abdul-Majid al-Khoei in 2003, a charge he denies and which remains unproven. Titles He belongs to the prominent Sadr (name), Sadr family that hails from Jabal Amel in Lebanon, before later settling in Najaf. Sadr is the son of Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, an Iraqi religious figure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
