Preceded by Aziz Muhammad Profession Politician
Economist Preceded by Council created Name Hamid Mousa | Succeeded by Council dissolved Nationality Iraqi | |
Born 7 January 1941 (age 83)
Kingdom of Iraq ( 1941-01-07 ) Alma mater Karl Marx Higher Institute of Economics Education University of National and World Economy | ||
Political party Iraqi Communist Party | ||
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Hamid Majid Mousa (Arabic: حميد مجيد موسى) is the Secretary General of the Iraqi Communist Party. He was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and previously currently held a seat in the National Assembly under Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National List.
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- How to pronounce hamid majid mousa arabic iraq pronouncenames com
- Early life
- Communist Party
- Post Saddam Iraq
- References
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 Saddam Hussein's regime. In 1993, he became Secretary General of the Iraqi Communist Party.
Post Saddam Iraq
He was a member of the committee that drafted the Constitution of Iraq and was one of two candidates elected to the Iraqi National Assembly 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 Iraqi National List. The party ran as part of the People's Union electoral coalition for the 2010 parliamentary election, but failed to gain any seats.