1884-1959
He was a doctor and the Minister of Health. He was born in Mosul, and he received his primary study in his hometown. He received a bachelor’s degree in Science and Arts from the French University in Beirut in 1903 and a diploma in medicine from the University of Paris and Istanbul in 1908 He was elected as a member in the Medical and Surgical Association in Brussels. He returned Mosul and served as President of the Royal Hospitals during the period 1914-1919 Between 1918 and 1920 he was appointed as a doctor in Mosul. He served as Minister of Health in 1922 and was the first minister of health in Irag”He also chaired the Directorate of Public Health for the period 1922-1931 in addition to teaching medicine in the College of Law and College of Medicine in Baghdad since 1926 In 1931 he was appointed as General Director of Foreign Affairs, then as General Inspector of Health in arr, and then as Director of the Royal Hospital and Dean of the Royal Medical College in 1934 He had various medical and sociological writings. His well-known books include: Lamha Tarikhiya Wafaniya fi Alhuma Altefo’eediya’ (Historical and Artistic Survey on the Typhoid Fever) in 1911 and *Tanaqus Alnufus fi Aliraq’ (Decrease of People in Iraq) in 1923.
