Draft:Fuad Shakir Mustafa

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Fuad Shakir Mustafa Al-Ani
فؤاد شاكر مصطفى
Mustafa, as a young graduate of Medicine.
Personal details
Born28 November 1930
Anah, Kingdom of Iraq
Died2001
Baghdad, Iraq
Nationality Iraq
RelationsIzzat Mustafa (uncle) - see own article on Wikipedia Arabia

Fuad Shakir Mustafa (Arabic: فؤاد شاكر مصطفى ;‎ November 1930 – 2001) was an Iraqi politician, doctor, and left-wing activist who contributed to the activist movements of Iraq. Born in Anah, was a member of the Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.[1], governed an Iraqi city, and served in the Iraqi Air Force as a reserve doctor.

Mustafa began attending university in 1951, at the Faculty of Medicine within the University of Damascus, Syria, where he met his wife Intibah. During his time at the faculty, he joined the Arab Ba'ath Party. Mustafa then graduated in 1956, and shortly following his graduation returned home to Iraq.

In February 1963, Mustafa took part in the Ramadan Revolution. Also referred to as the 8 February Revolution and the February 1963 coup d'état in Iraq, it was a military coup by the Ba'ath Party's Iraqi-wing which overthrew Abd al-Karim Qasim, the Prime Minister of Iraq in 1963. It took place between 8 and 10 February 1963.[2]

On the 15th of May, 1963, he was appointed the Governor of Kirkuk, a city located 238km north of Baghdad, Iraq. Mustafa remained governor until February 22nd, 1964[3]. He went on to become a Regional Commander within the Iraqi Region of the Ba'ath Party, taking office on November 11th 1963 up until February of the following year[4]

In 1965, he traveled to Denmark and obtained a higher diploma in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine, and was appointed an anesthesiologist at Al-Jumhuri Hospital in Baghdad.

After the corrective movement undertaken by Hafez al-Assad, he was sentenced to death in 1971, so he sought refuge in Algeria with his wife and daughters. He then moved to London, UK with his family where his son was born before they all returned to Iraq in 1977, as an official pardon had been issued for leftist Baath members.

After his return to Iraq, he continued to practice anesthesia in Al-Razi Hospital, which was owned by his uncle, Izzat Mustafa Al-Ani, until 1997.

Fuad Shakir Mustafa died in 2001.

References edit

  1. ^ Ghareeb, Edmund; Dougherty, Beth K (March 28, 2004). Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810865686.
  2. ^ Gibson, Bryan R. (2015). Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-48711-7.
  3. ^ "محافظو كركوك من سنة 1922 لغاية سنة 2011". Iraqi Aramic House. Iraqi Aramean House Forums. January 2, 2013. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  4. ^ Ghareeb, Edmund; Dougherty, Beth K (March 28, 2004). Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Scarecrow Press. pp. 389–392. ISBN 9780810865686.