Iyad allawi biography books
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Ayad Allawi
Prime Minister of Iraq from to
Ayad Allawi (Arabic: إيَاد عَلَّاوِيIyād ʿAllāwī; born 31 May ) is an Iraqi politician. He served as the vice president of Iraq from to and to [4][5][6] Previously he was interim prime minister of Iraq from to and the president of the Governing Council of Iraq (38th prime minister of Iraq) in
A prominent Iraqi political activist who lived in exile for almost 30 years, Allawi, a Shia Muslim, became a member of the Iraq Interim Governing Council, which was established by U.S.-led coalition authorities following the invasion of Iraq. He became Iraq's first head of government since Saddam Hussein when the council dissolved on 1 June , and named him prime minister of the Iraqi Interim Government. His term as prime minister ended on 7 April , after the selection of Islamic Dawa Party leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari by the newly elected transitional Iraqi National Assembly.[7]
A former Ba'athist, All
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Featuring the testimony of close to seventy Iraqis from all walks of life, Voices from Iraq builds a riveting chronological history unmatched for its insight and revelations. Here is a history of the war in Iraq as told entirely by Iraqis living through the U.S. invasion and occupation.
Beginning in , this intimate narrative includes the experiential accounts of civilians, politicians, former dissidents, insurgents, and militiamen. Iraqis offering firsthand stories range from onetime Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to resistance fighters speaking on the condition of anonymity. Divided into five parts, these interviews recount the invasion; Iraq's gradual slide into chaos from to ; the start of a new order in ; the rise of open sectarian violence over the next two years; and the effort since to reconstruct a society from relative calm. Each section includes interviews grouped into themes, with brief epilogues for the participants. Not since Studs Terkel's The Good War has a book cap
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Around this time, Allawi had obtained a master’s grad in epidemiology at University College London and had nearly completed his doctoral thesis, in rheumatology, at Guy’s Hospital. He had begun to meet regularly with other exiles, but they had not yet formed an opposition group. Nonetheless, Saddam was clearly worried about their activities. “Saddam really started believing that we were forming a group to overthrow the regime,” Allawi said. Beginning in , several of Allawi’s close friends were assassinated by hit men presumed to have been dispatched by Saddam. One was killed in Beirut; another was killed shortly after returning, against Allawi’s advice, to Baghdad. I asked Allawi why he thought that Saddam had not immediately targeted him for death. He explained that for years Saddam had tried to lure him back to the Party, sending envoys to London for that purpose. He had rejected those overtures.
In , someone finally came after him. One night, Allawi and his wife, Athour, were