Mufid Mohammad Jawad al-Jazairi (born 1939) was Minister of Culture in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003 and in the Iraqi Interim Government

Iraqi Interim Government

The Iraqi Interim Government was created by the United States and its coalition allies as a caretaker government to govern Iraq until the Iraqi Transitional Government was installed following the Iraqi National Assembly election conducted on January 30, 2005...

. A Shia Muslim and member of the Iraqi Communist Party

Iraqi Communist Party

Since its foundation in 1934, the Iraqi Communist Party has dominated the left in Iraqi politics. It played a fundamental role in shaping the political history of Iraq between its foundation and the 1970s. The Party was involved in many of the most important national uprisings and demonstrations...

' central committee, al-Jazairi was a journalist by profession. He worked for the Arabic desk at Czechoslovak Radio in the 1960s and 1970s and married Czech radio journalist Pavla Jazairiová. He returned to Iraq in the 1980s and became a member of the Kurdish opposition. His older son Nisan Al-Jazairi is a merchant, his younger son Martin Jazairi is a reporter for Czech television in Russia.

He was elected to the Iraqi Council of Representatives in the Iraqi legislative election of December 2005 as one of two communist MPs from the Iraqi National List

Iraqi National List

The Iraqi National List is a coalition of Iraqi political parties who ran in the December 2005 Iraqi elections and got 8.0% of the vote and 25 out of 275 seats...

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