Hajj
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Dr Mohamed Ali al-Nasiri (born 1 July 1944) is an
Arabic journalist, author and academic based in the
United Kingdom. His father was
Sheikh
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Abbas of the
Al-Juaber tribal confederation.
[Dabrowska, K. and Hann, G., (2008) ''Iraq Then and Now: A Guide to the Country and Its People'']
Biography
Born in
Nasiriyah
Nasiriyah ( ar, ٱلنَّاصِرِيَّة; United States Board on Geographic Names, BGN: ''An Nāşirīyah''; also spelled ''Nassiriya'' or ''Nasiriya'') is a city in Iraq. It is on the lower Euphrates River, Euphrates, about south-southeas ...
in 1944, al-Nasiri is an Arab scholar, author and journalist of
Shiite descent. In his published works he has dealt with a range of subject areas, but particularly Arabic literature, language and history and
Islamic
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studies. He is currently a member of the
Islamic Dawa Party of
Iraq in the
United Kingdom and has worked for
BBC,
Al-jazeera
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,
Sawt al-Iraq,
International Colleges of Islamic Sciences.
He completed first and secondary level education in Nasiriyah in Iraq. He then went on to study at the Al-Fiqh college in
Najaf. In 1970 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Arabic language and Islamic sciences.
After working as a secondary school teacher in both Algeria and Iraq for twenty years he went on to complete his Masters in the philosophy of Islamic Law in London in 1999 before completing his Doctorate in Islamic Studies in 2002.
Amongst his many published works and books are ''French Politics in the Middle East'' (1984) and ''France in Algeria'' (1984) and the editing of ''the core Islamic Beliefs'' by the late Sheikh Abbas Al-Nasiri(2004).
He has often been invited to speak at debates and seminars around the world and edited on numerous occasions the magazine
Sawt al-Iraq which was based in London and had been in print for nearly 20 years.
Bibliography
*''French Politics in the Middle East'' (1984)
*''France in Algeria'' (1984)
References
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1944 births
Living people
Iraqi journalists