Atheel al-Nujaifi ( ar, أثيل النجيفي; tr, Esil Nuceyfi; born 1958) is an
Iraqi politician who was the Governor of
Nineveh Governorate
Nineveh Governorate ( ar, محافظة نينوى, syr, ܗܘܦܪܟܝܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ, Hoparkiya d’Ninwe, ckb, پارێزگای نەینەوا, Parêzgeha Neynewa), also known as Ninawa Governorate, is a governorate in northern Iraq. It has an ...
from April 2009 until May 2015.
Nujaifi was born into a
Mawsili family in 1958. He is a brother of the
Vice-President of Iraq,
Osama al-Nujaifi
Osama Abdul Aziz al-Nujaifi or Najifi ( ar, أسامة النجيفي; born c. 1956 in Mosul) is an Iraqi politician and served as one of the three vice presidents of the country, from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. As the speaker of the Council ...
. His ancestors were closely aligned with the
Ottoman rulers of Mosul, resulting in them receiving huge grants of land in
al-Hamdaniya district
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. Nujaifi has degrees in Engineering and Law from the University of Mosul.
References
External links
Official website
Governors of Nineveh Governorate
Iraqi politicians
Living people
People from Mosul
1958 births
University of Mosul alumni
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