Naji Sabri

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As Naji al-Hadithi , Sabri was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper The Baghdad Observer from 1980 to 1998

Nadschi Sabri ( Arabic ناجي صبري; * 1951 in Haditha , Iraq ), actually Naji Sabri Ahmad Al-Hadithi , is a former Iraqi politician . From 2001 to 2003 he was the last foreign minister in the Iraqi Ba'ath government .

After studying English, Naji Sabri obtained a doctorate in linguistics and became a member of the Baath party. From 1968 to 1975 he was editor-in-chief of the party newspaper ath-Thawra ( The Revolution ), from 1969 to 1975 he worked at the University of Baghdad , from 1975 to 1980 he was an interpreter and advisor to the Iraqi embassy in London . In London he founded and directed the Iraqi Cultural Center and published a magazine on Iraqi art.

Back in Baghdad , Sabri worked from 1980 to 1990 as general director of the Dar al-Ma'mun publishing house , from 1990 to 1991 as general director in the Ministry of Information and from 1991 to 1995 as deputy information minister. Above all, however, he was also editor-in-chief of the English-language daily newspaper The Baghdad Observer from 1980 to 1998 under the pseudonym Naji al-Hadithi and from 1986 to 1995 editor-in-chief of the art magazine Gilgamesh . From 1995 to 1999 he worked at al-Mustansiriyya University .

In 1999 he went to Austria as Iraqi ambassador and to Slovakia in 2000 before becoming Minister of State in the Foreign Ministry and, on August 4, 2001, as the successor to Muhammad al-Sahhaf , Iraq's last Baathist foreign minister. Before the US allied invasion, he fled to Qatar in 2003 .

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SURNAME Sabri, Naji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Naji Sabri Ahmad Al-Hadithi (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi politician, Foreign Minister of Iraq
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Iraq