Mohsen Abdel Hamid

Mohsen Abdel Hamid محسن عبد الحميد
President of the Governing Council of Iraq
In office 1 February 2004 – 29 February 2004
Leader	Paul Bremer
Preceded by	Adnan Pachachi
Succeeded by	Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum
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Born	1937 (age 73–74) Kirkuk, Iraq
Political party	Iraqi Islamic Party
Profession	Lawyer
Religion	Sunni Islam

Mohsen Abdel Hamid (* 1937 Arabic: محسن عبد الحميد‎) is an Iraqi politician and Islamic scholar who was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council (president, February 2004), created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Biography

Abdel Hamid was born in 1937 in Kirkuk and is of Kurdish background.^[1] He studied Islamic Law in Cairo and returned to Iraq in 1986 to work as a professor at Baghdad University. Abdel Hamid has written over 30 books on interpretation of the Qur'an. He was arrested in 1996 by the government of Saddam Hussein but opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Until 2004 he was the secretary general of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni party in Iraq, and as a result was appointed to the Iraqi Governing Council.

On May 30, 2005, Abdel Hamid was mistakenly arrested by U.S. troops.^[2]

References

1. ^ Biography, Niqash, 2005-11-07, accessed 2007-01-28
2. ^ ABC News: ABC News

Political offices
Preceded by Adnan Pachachi	President of the Governing Council of Iraq 2004	Succeeded by Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum

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Name	Abdel Hamid, Mohsen
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Date of birth	1937
Place of birth	Kirkuk, Iraq
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