Husain al-Rahhal
Husain al-Rahhal | |
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حسين الرحال | |
| Born | 1900/1901 |
| Died | 13 April 1971 (aged 69–71) Baghdad, Iraqi Republic |
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Husain Ali Saib Salim al-Rahhal[a] (1900/1901 – 13 April 1971) was an Iraqi translator, journalist and Communist activist, who helped found the Iraqi Communist Party.
al-Rahhal came from a family of officials and merchants. He is known as the first "marxist" student of Iraq. He travelled to Berlin in 1919 and India in 1921.[1] He studied at the Baghdad School of Law, forming the first Marxist study circle in Iraq in 1924. The group published a newspaper, As-Sahifah,[2] edited by Al-Rahhal.[3]
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- ↑ Satia, Priya (5 March 2008). Spies in Arabia : The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East. Oxford University Press. pp. 208–. ISBN 978-0-19-971598-5.
- ↑ Halim Barakat (1993). The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State. University of California Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-520-91442-1.
- ↑ The Who's Who of Iraq, 1936, p.582.