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Place of Birth: Ash Shatrah, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq
About Tariq Najm
- Tariq Najm Abdullah Al Saa'dawi (Arabic: ???? ??? ??????? ?????????) known as Tariq Najm (born July, 1945) was the Chief of Staff for the previous Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki; between 2006 and 2010.
- He is a senior advisor for the current Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. Najm was born in July 1945 in the city of Ash Shatrah in what was then known as Muntafiq Governorate.
- He went on to study as an undergraduate at the Faculty Theology at the University of Baghdad.
- He has been a member of the Islamic Dawa Party since the late sixties.
- He then went on to earn a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Al-Azhar in the Arabic language, before going on to work as a professor at the King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah.
- In 1986 he moved to the United Arab Emirates, teaching at the United Arab Emirates University until 1991, when he moved to Yemen and was appointed as a professor at Sana'a University.
- He worked there until 2001, when he travelled to London and claimed political asylum. Following the Invasion of Iraq in April 2003 he returned to Iraq, and became Nouri al-Maliki's Chief of Staff in Maliki's First Government in the summer of 2006. After the poor performance of the Iraqi Army and the resurgence of anti-government militant groups during the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive there were discussions of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki being replaced.
- Najm was one of the individuals rumoured to be being considered as a replacement.
- In Najm's favour was his reputation as a mediator, his healthy relationships with Iran, Turkey, and the US, and also his strong relationship with Ayatollah Sistani.
- he is no longer a member of the Iraqi government.
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