The scientific title: Professor

Marital Status: married

Address: Kirkuk

Birth: 1974

holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law – Baghdad

holds a Bachelor of Arts degree

Master’s degree (1998)

PhD in International Relations (2001)

Diploma in English (Cambridge)

Positions

Minister of Planning 2022-

Former Minister of Education 2010-2014

Acting Minister of Commerce for two months – June and July 2014

President of Kirkuk University 2003

Member of the Iraqi Council of Representatives for five sessions since 2005

Member of the committees for preparing the federal general budget of the Council of Ministers for the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014

Chairman of the Parliamentary Finance Committee 2017-2018

Member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee 2015-2016

Member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee 2018 – 2019 – 2020 – 2021

Member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee 2022

Adviser in the Iraqi Constitution Writing Committee 2005

Member of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee 2006 – 2008

Member of the Parliamentary Legal Committee 2008 – 2010

Member of the Iraqi Constitution Rewriting Committee 2007-2010

Vice Chairman of the Constitution Rewriting Committee 2020-2021

Member of the Parliamentary Committee for Civil Society Organizations 2014-2015

Member of the Committee for Writing the Bylaws of the Iraqi Council of Representatives 2006

Representative of Iraq in international conferences (36-37) of UNESCO

Assistant to the President of Kirkuk University 2004

Secretary of the Kirkuk University Council 2003

Chairman of the Curriculum Modernization Committee at the University of Kirkuk 2005

Lecturer at the University of Kirkuk / College of Law since 1998 and the College of Education since 2004

Visiting Professor at the University of Berlin since 2005

Visiting Professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Hamburg – Germany.

Member of the Iraqi Bar Association

Member of the Iraqi Association for Political Science

Member of the Association of University Professors

Member of the Iraqi-Syrian Parliamentary Relations Office 2008

Member of the negotiation committee on Kirkuk in the Provincial Councils Election Law 2008

Member of the Reconciliation Conference held in Helsinki 2008

Member of the World Bank Conference on the Constitution of Iraq in Dubai 2007

Publications:

About 24 publications in various specializations in law, political science, history of international, historical and social relations, and literary publications, besides scientific researches published in international magazenes.

For example:

Central Asian Islamic Republics and economic renaissance after 1991

Turkish relations with the Islamic republics of Central Asia during a quarter of a century

Lectures on democratic systems (a book taught in faculties of law)

The international position on the US occupation of Iraq

Israeli terror strategy intellectual rooting

The military security agreement between Türkiye and Israel in 1996

Neoconservative ideological foundations

Türkiye – Israel, a study in the development of bilateral relations in the nineties of the twentieth century

Türkiye and the Arab geographical neighborhood, the water dilemma

The role of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Lebanon

Saudi-Egyptian relations

Movements, currents, associations and parties

Saudi-American relations and the Arab-Zionist conflict

Political parties and currents in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The structure of Iraqi society and its clans

Convention of the Great Assembly of Northern Ireland

Kirkuk during the years of the British Mandate

Studies in contemporary Middle Eastern issues

General principles in protocol and diplomacy

The struggle of the wings in the Saudi royal family

Opposition to the ruling regime in Saudi Arabia

Literary publications:

The Time of Contradiction – a collection of short stories, 1996

Hatoon Assaif- a poetry collection 2002

The Other Name of the Impossible – Novel 2021