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Also known as: Ṭāriq ʿAzīz, Mikhail Yuhanna
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Category: History & Society
Also spelled:
Ṭāriq ʿAzīz
Original name:
Mīkhāʾīl Yūḥannā
Born:
April 28, 1936, Qaḍā Talkīf, Iraq
Died:
June 5, 2015, Al-Nāṣiriyyah, Iraq (aged 79)
Title / Office:
foreign minister (1983-1991), Iraq
Political Affiliation:
Baʿath Party
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Tariq Aziz (born April 28, 1936, Qaḍā Talkīf, Iraq—died June 5, 2015, Al-Nāṣiriyyah, Iraq) Iraqi public official who served as foreign minister (1983–91) and deputy prime minister (1979–2003) in the Baʿathist government of Saddam Hussein. Tariq Aziz was born Mīkhāʾīl Yūḥannā to a Chaldean Catholic family in northern Iraq. He studied English at Baghdad University and worked as a journalist after earning his degree. Beginning in 1958, he wrote for a series of Iraqi newspapers, and he became involved with the Baʿath Party. He changed his Syriac-influenced name to Tariq Aziz to appeal to the party’s Arab nationalism, and he ...(100 of 601 words)

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