Raed Fahmy Jahid

Dr. Raed Fahmy Jahid (also Ra'd, Ra'id), known as Abu Rawa, (b. 1950) is an Iraqi politician and the Minister of Science and Technology in the present government of Iraq of Nouri al-Maliki. He is of Sunni Arab origin and his family is from Mosul although he was born in Baghdad. His father was the ambassador to France in the 1950s. He has spent most of his life in exile. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics, Queen Mary, University of London and the Paris Sorbonne University and has worked as a researcher for the OECD. He went on to lecture in various universities in France and was the Iraqi Communist Party's representative in France. He edited the Al-Thaqafah al-Jadidah magazine. Abu Rawa is a member of the ICP Politbura....