Hamid Majid Mousa ( ar, حميد مجيد موسى) is the

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of the

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. He was a member of the

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created following the

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, and previously currently held a seat in the

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Early life

Mousa is an economist and petroleum researcher by training and studied at the Karl Marx Higher Institute of Economics in Sofia from 1960 to 1965. He is of Shia background.

Communist Party

Mousa joined the Iraqi Communist Party in October 1959, and remained a member during the suppression of the party between 1965 and 1968. He was arrested in May 1968 due to his links with the party, although was released as part of an amnesty at the end of the year following the Ba'athist coup. He worked as an economic researcher in the national oil company from 1970 until late 1978 when he left Iraq. He had been appointed to the Central Committee of the party at the National Conference in 1976. He returned to Iraq in 1983, where he lived in the Kurdish-controlled north of the country and was involved in activities against

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's regime. In 1993, he became Secretary General of the

Post Saddam Iraq

He was a member of the committee that drafted the

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and was one of two candidates elected to the

Iraqi National Assembly 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 legislature o ...

in the January 2005 elections as part of the People's Union list. He was again elected in the December 2005 elections as part of the

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. The party ran as part of the People's Union electoral coalition for the 2010 parliamentary election, but failed to gain any seats.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mousa, Hamid Majid Members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq Living people Iraqi Communist Party politicians 1941 births University of National and World Economy alumni Karl Marx Higher Institute of Economics alumni Iraqi expatriates in Bulgaria

Early life

Communist Party

Post Saddam Iraq

See also

References