Raja Habib al-Khuzaai was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, created following the United States

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's 2003 invasion of Iraq

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, and one of only three women on the twenty-five-member governing body. She has also been a member of the Iraqi National Assembly, elected under the banner of the United Iraqi Alliance

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. Although she lived in the United Kingdom

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 in the 1960s and 1970s, she returned to Iraq in 1977. A Shia Muslim, al-Khuazaai is a medical doctor who currently directs a maternity hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniyah.