Naji al-Suwaidi was an Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

i politician who served as Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Iraq

The Prime Minister of Iraq is Iraq's head of government. Prime Minister was originally an appointed office, subsidiary to the head of state, and the nominal leader of the Iraqi parliament. Under the newly adopted constitution the Prime Minister is to be the country's active executive authority...

 from November 1929 to March 1930.

Naji al-Suwaidi became prime minister in November 1929, following the suicide of Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun

Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun

Abd al-Muhsin Al-Saadoon, Honorary KCMG ‎ was an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq four separate times between 1922 and 1929...

. His short time in the post was marked by street protests agitating for a treaty that would pave the way towards Iraqi independence from the British Mandate of Mesopotamia. That turmoil, combined with attacks from hostile newspapers and undermining from both King Faisal I

Faisal I of Iraq

Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi, was for a short time King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of the Kingdom of Iraq from 23 August 1921 to 1933...

 and Nuri as-Said

Nuri as-Said

Nuri Pasha al-Said was an Iraqi politician during the British Mandate and during the Kingdom of Iraq. He served in various key cabinet positions, and served seven terms as Prime Minister of Iraq....

, led him to resign in March 1930.

He was the brother of Tawfiq al-Suwaidi

Tawfiq al-Suwaidi

Tawfiq al-Suwaidi was an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq on three occasions:* April 28, 1929 - August 25, 1929* February 23, 1946 - May 31, 1946* February 5, 1950 - September 4, 1950....

, also a Prime Minister of Iraq.