Biography

Professor Hashim Hassan Rashid Hassan, known as Professor Hashim Akrayi and Hashim al-Hajj Hassan, was born in the city of Akre in Mosul Governorate in the Year 1926. He completed the Teachers' Institute in Sulaymaniyah in the Year 1948. He was a school principal from the Year 1954-1958. He was transferred as a teacher to the Ali al-Gharbi sub-district in Maysan Governorate (Amara) in southern Iraq in the Year 1959. He was a teacher at the only intermediate school in Kalala within the borders of Aylul Revolution in the Year 1964. He passed away in the city of Baghdad on 5 October in the Year 1990 and was buried in the Birban cemetery in the Akre district of Dohuk Governorate. He was fluent in the (Kurdish, Arabic, and English) languages. 

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He joined the ranks of the Hiwa Kurdish Party in the Akre district of Mosul Governorate in the Year 1943, and joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Year 1946. In the Year 1953, he became associated with the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union. He assumed responsibility for the Akre local committee in the Year 1958. He held the Position of principal of the first Akre school in Mosul Governorate and his professional rank was promoted in the Year 1958. He was a Delegate to the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq in the Year 1959, and was a Member of the First Branch Committee in the Year 1959. He was imprisoned and tortured in the Year 1959 by the coup plotters in Mosul by order of Colonel Abdul Wahab al-Shawaf. 

He was elected in the Year 1960 as a Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the Delegates of the Fifth Congress, and was appointed in the Year 1960 as a Member of the First Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party after the Fifth Congress of the party within the fifth team during the tenure of the engineer Nuri Sadiq Ali (1922-1981), known as Nuri Shaways. He continued his service within the sixth team during the tenure of Saleh Abdullah Najm al-Din (1918-1981), known as Seyda Saleh Yusifi in the Year 1961. He joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces in the Year 1961. He was a Delegate to the First People's Congress (Koysinjaq Congress) in the Year 1963. He was tasked in the Year 1963 by the People's Congress as a member of the delegation of Aylul Revolution to conduct negotiations with the Iraqi government. He arrived in the city of Baghdad on 30 March 1963 for the purpose of negotiations regarding the national rights of the Kurds, and was subsequently arrested by the Iraqi government and subjected to torture, remaining until the Year 1964 when he was released after negotiations with the authorities of the Republic of Iraq. 

He participated at the end of December in the Year 1963 in an expanded meeting to establish the Revolutionary Command Council in the city of Ranya in Sulaymaniyah Governorate without result. He was dismissed from the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the Political Bureau wing on 4 April 1964 because of his Support and endorsement of the leader Mustafa Barzani(1903-1979). He was elected at the beginning of May in the Year 1964 as a Member of the Preparatory Committee for the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the Year 1964 he was elected Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the Delegates of the Sixth Congress of the party. He was elected Member of the Political Bureau at the first meeting of the Central Committee in the village of Sanksar in Sulaymaniyah Governorate in the Year 1964, and became a member of the Revolutionary Command Council in Kurdistan, Iraq in the Year 1964. He was chosen as a Member of the Constitutional Committee affiliated with the Executive Bureau in 1964. In the Year 1965, he assumed responsibility for the First Branch Committee of the party. He participated on 10 January 1965 as a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation headed by Habib al-Fayli, Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, for the purpose of conducting negotiations with the Iraqi government. He was elected Alternate Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the Delegates of the 7th Congress in the Year 1966. He published an article in the magazine Voice of Kurdistan, the mouthpiece of the First Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Year 1967. He assumed responsibility for the First Branch Committee of the party in the Year 1968. He was the director of the first session of the Revolution Teachers' Training Institute in the Kalala sub-district in the Year 1968. In the Year 1968-1969, he gave lectures on psychology as the director of the first session of the Revolution Teachers' Training Institute. He was the director of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Training School in the village of Choman in Erbil Governorate and a lecturer on sociology in its first session. He volunteered to work as a teacher of the Arabic language at the Kalala intermediate school in the Year 1969. He was the director of the second session of the Revolution Teachers' Training Institute in the Year 1969. In the same year, he became a teacher of sociology and modern history in the second session and director of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Training School in the village of Nawprdan in Erbil Governorate. He was elected Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the Delegates of the 8th Congress of the party in the Year 1970. He was appointed on 22 April 1970 as Director of Kurdish Culture and Information. He participated on Friday, 12 June 1970, by order of the leader Mustafa Barzani as a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation in the funeral ceremonies of the great global Shiite authority, Grand Ayatollah Abdul Mohsen al-Hakim (1889-1970) in the city of Najaf in western Iraq. He participated on 5 August 1970 as a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Third Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union and delivered a speech at the congress. He was appointed Governor of Dohuk by order of the Revolutionary Command Council on 6 October 1970. He oversaw on Thursday, 12 August 1971, the first conference of the Kurdish Writers' Union - Dohuk Branch and delivered a speech there on behalf of the governorate. He was elected Member of the Administrative Body by the Delegates of the Dohuk Congress of the Kurdish Intellectuals Association in June 1972. He attended on Thursday, 15 March 1973, the Nowruz celebration held by the Fifth Branch Committee in the Mustansiriya University hall. He betrayed the Kurdayeti and joined the Iraqi government in the Year 1973 with Major General Aziz Rashid Aziz (1924-1998), known as Major General Aziz Akrayi, and Ismail Aziz Mustafa (1938-2017), known as Sheikh Ismail Mullah Aziz, members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party leadership, and other individuals.

He assumed on 7 April 1974 the Position of Minister of Municipalities by a republican decree in the cabinet of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914-1982). He was appointed Member of the first Legislative Council for the Kurdistan Region by order of the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. He was chosen on Tuesday, 24 September 1974, by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as Chairman of the Executive Council for the Kurdistan Region for the foundational stage. He was appointed on 5 October in the Year 1974 as Chairman of the first session of the Executive Council for the Kurdistan Region by the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He assumed the Position of Minister of Municipalities in the cabinet of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr for the years 1974-1976. He was the editor-in-chief of the Arabic newspaper Al-Ta'akhi after the setback of Aylul Revolution in the Year 1975, and was the head of the Kurdish Culture Association in the city of Baghdad for a short period in the Year 1975. He held the Position of Governor of Babil from 1976-1977. He obtained, along with Saleh Haidar Asim (1922-2001), known as Saleh Haidari, and four other people, a license to issue the Al-Iraq newspaper in the Arabic language on the condition of canceling the Al-Ta'akhi newspaper. He became the concessionaire of the Al-Iraq newspaper supplement on 22 March 1977.

He was appointed on 25 September 1977 as a Member of the Second Legislative Council for the Kurdistan Region by order of the Revolutionary Command Council. He was appointed from 1977-1981 as Head of the Executive Council for the Kurdistan Autonomous Region by the Iraqi government. He was appointed in the Year 1977 by republican decree as Minister of State in the cabinet of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914-1982). He was appointed on 15 December 1977 by republican decree as Acting Minister of Trade for Iraq. He was relieved of his position as Head of the Legislative Council for the Kurdistan Autonomous Region by the Revolutionary Command Council and was appointed Minister of State on 15 December 1977. He was also appointed by republican decree as Acting Minister of Labor and Social Affairs on 5 February 1978. He was elected President of the Kurdish Culture Association in the city of Baghdad on 13 December 1979. In the Year 1979, he became a Member of the Arab Popular Congress in the city of Damascus, as a member of the Supreme Committee of the Iraqi National Progressive Front. In the Year 1981, he became Minister of State in the cabinet of Saddam Hussein (1937-2006), known as Saddam al-Tikriti. He was awarded the Officer's Medal by the President of the Republic of Mali in the Year 1981. He assumed the Ministry of State for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Saddam Hussein in the Year 1983. He also became Minister of State in the cabinet of Saddam Hussein in the Year 1984. In the Year 1987, he was Head of the Concession Authority for the Kurdish newspaper Al-Iraq.                

 

Among his publications:

1- A Theory of the Concept of Democracy in the Thought of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party - 1980.

2- Our National Unity in the Face of the Enemy - 1981.

Sources:

  1. A.D.A., File Number FA-4, transcript of an interview with Fazil Mutni Alikhan, Known as Fazil Mirani by Sabri Zebari, Pirmam, 5 February 2015, p. 6.

  2. Ali Sinjari, The Kurdish Issue and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq, Part Three, (Duhok - Khani Press - 2012), p. 419.

  3. Chris Kutschera, The Kurdish National Movement, translated by Ibrahim Younesi, second edition, (Tehran - Negah Publishing Institute - 1377 AH), p. 376.

  4. Mustafa Nariman, Dictionary of Kurdish Writers and Authors, (Baghdad - General Secretariat of Culture and Youth - Al-As'ad Press - 1986), p. 150.

  5. Shwan Muhammad Amin Taha Khoshnaw, Erbil Between the Years 1963 - 1970: A Historical Study of the Political Situation, (Erbil - Salahaddin University Press - 2016), pp. 114, 158.

  6. Abdurrahman Sharafkandi, The Guest's Meal, (Paris - 1997), p. 442.

  7. Shawkat Khaznadar, Travels and Stations of the Iraqi Communist Party... A View from Within, (Beirut - Dar Al-Kunooz Al-Adabiya - 2005), pp. 281 - 282.

  8. Something about the press in Duhok, Zagros Magazine, Ministry of Culture - Kurdistan Region, Issue 5, Erbil, April 1998, p. 14.

  9. Tawfiq Malla Sadiq, Memoirs of My Days in the Party, Peshmerga, and My Exile, second edition, (Erbil - Shahab Press - 1996), pp. 56, 68, 70, 72, 81.

  10. Latif Nadir Rawanduzi, The Importance of the Kurdistan Intelligence Agency in the Great September National Revolution, Gulan Magazine, Issue 132, Erbil, 2 August 1997, pp. 45 - 46.

  11. Jamil Hussein al-Jubouri, Senior Iraqi Politicians in the Republican Era 1958 - 2003, Part One, (Cairo - Al-Maktab 

  12. Website of the First Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

  13. www.pdk - leqa1.com

  14. Muhammad Malla Qadir, Struggle Record: A Brief History of the Party and the Culture of the Immortal Barzani, second edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - 2007), pp. 55, 61, 62, 68.

  15. Republican Decree No. 63, Al-Waqa'i Al-Iraqiya Newspaper, Ministry of Justice, Issue 2638, Baghdad, Monday, 20 February 1978, p. 9.

  16. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Volume Three, second edition, (Erbil - Ministry of Education Press - 2002), pp. 144, 253, 291.

  17. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Volume Three - Part Two, (Erbil - Ministry of Education Press - 2004), p. 104.

  18. Wasfi Hassan, The Beginning of the September Revolution in the Bahdinan Region 1961 - 1963, (Duhok - Khani Press - 2012), p. 168.