Mufid Mohammad Jawad al-Jazairi (born 1939) was Minister of Culture in the cabinet appointed by the

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in September 2003 and in the

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. A

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Muslim and member of the

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' central committee, al-Jazairi was a journalist by profession. He worked for the Arabic desk at Czechoslovak Radio in the 1960s and 1970s and married Czech radio journalist

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. He returned to Iraq in the 1980s and became a member of the

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opposition. His older son Nisan Al-Jazairi is a merchant, his younger son Martin Jazairi is a reporter for Czech television in Russia. He was elected to the

Iraqi Council of Representatives The Council of Representatives ( ar, مجلس النواب, Majlis an-Nuwwāb al-ʿIrāqiyy; ku, ئه‌نجومه‌نی نوێنه‌ران, ''Enjumen-e Nûnerên''), usually referred to simply as the Parliament is the unicameral legislatur ...

in the

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as one of two communist MPs from the

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* * * Members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq Government ministers of Iraq 1939 births Living people Iraqi Communist Party politicians Iraqi expatriates in Czechoslovakia {{Iraq-politician-stub