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Rowsch Shaways

Rowsch Shaways

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Rowsch Shaways (Kurdish
Kurdish language
Kurdish is the language spoken by Kurds in western Asia. Unlike many other languages it does not have a single standardized linguistic entity with the status of an official or state language...

 رۆژ نووری شاویس; Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. In terms of speakers, the Arabic macrolanguage is the largest member of the Semitic language family. It is spoken by more than 280 million people as...

 روژ نورى شاويس) served as one of Iraq's two vice presidents
Vice President of Iraq
As currently constituted, the state of Iraq has two vice presidents or deputy presidents. The office of Vice President is largely ceremonial but prestigious...

 in the 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...

 established in 2004. Subsequently, he was a Deputy Prime Minister in the government headed by Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Ibrahim abd al-Karim Hamzah al-Ashaiqir al-Jaafari is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq in the Iraqi Transitional Government from 2005 to 2006, following the January 2005 election. A Shi'a, he was previously one of the two Vice-Presidents of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government...

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Rowsch Shaways (Kurdish
Kurdish language
Kurdish is the language spoken by Kurds in western Asia. Unlike many other languages it does not have a single standardized linguistic entity with the status of an official or state language...

 رۆژ نووری شاویس; Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. In terms of speakers, the Arabic macrolanguage is the largest member of the Semitic language family. It is spoken by more than 280 million people as...

 روژ نورى شاويس) served as one of Iraq's two vice presidents
Vice President of Iraq
As currently constituted, the state of Iraq has two vice presidents or deputy presidents. The office of Vice President is largely ceremonial but prestigious...

 in the 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...

 established in 2004. Subsequently, he was a Deputy Prime Minister in the government headed by Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Ibrahim abd al-Karim Hamzah al-Ashaiqir al-Jaafari is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq in the Iraqi Transitional Government from 2005 to 2006, following the January 2005 election. A Shi'a, he was previously one of the two Vice-Presidents of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government...

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Previously, he served as Parliament speaker in the Kurdish
Kurdish people
The Kurds are an Ethnic-Iranian ethnolinguistic group mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

 autonomous region and is a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party
Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq
The Kurdistan Democratic Party is one of the main notable Kurdish parties in Iraq, by the Kurds called South Kurdistan. It was founded in 1946 in Suleimaiyah, and immediately elected Mustafa Barzani, a Kurdish nationalist who fought numerous revolts against Baghdad, as its president in...

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Dr. Shaways earned a doctorate in engineering in Germany and returned to Iraq in 1975 to join the Kurdish resistance to Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...

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