Fuad Masum
Mohammed Fuad Masum ( Kurdish فوئاد مەعسووم Fuad Mesûm ; Arabic محمد فؤاد معصوم, DMG Muḥammad Fuʾād Maʿṣūm ; * 1938 in Koya ) is an Iraqi politician and was President of Iraq from July 24, 2014 to October 2, 2018 . From June 14 to November 11, 2010, he was Chairman of the Council of Representatives of Iraq . He is the second Kurdish president of his country after Jalal Talabani .
Life
Masum was born in the village of Chabanin in the Hawraman region. His Nisba Hewremanî is also derived from the region . Masum grew up in an Islamic-religious family. His father was Sheikh Mulla Masum. Fuad Masum went to Cairo in 1958, studied there at al-Azhar and received his doctorate in Islamic philosophy on the Brothers of Purity . He taught law at Basra University . From 1962 to 1964 he was a member of the Iraqi Communist Party . In 1975 he co-founded the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. After the fall of Saddam Hussein , Masum was the first Prime Minister of the Kurdish regional government . In the election of the president in the Iraqi parliament, he received 211 votes, his rival Barham Salih received only 17 votes.
He is married and has five daughters. One son died in childhood.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.albayan.ae (Arabic)
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| SURNAME | Masum, Fuad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Masum, Muhammad Fuad (full name); Mesûm, Fuad; فوئاد مەعسووم (Kurdish); محمد فؤاد معصوم (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iraqi politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koya , Erbil , Iraq |