the biography

Lawyer Jirjis Fathallah Shamas, known as Jirjis Fathallah the Lawyer, was born in Mosul in 1920. He was of Chaldean ethnicity and Catholic faith. He completed his primary, intermediate, and secondary education in Mosul. In 1939, he was accepted into the Law Department at Baghdad College of Law, and he received his bachelor's degree in 1943. He practiced law for a period of time. In 1971, he left for Lebanon, where he resided. In 1975, after the setback... September Revolution He sought refuge in Iran in August 1979 after the victory of the Iranian revolution and the tense situation in Iran. He requested asylum in Britain, and also went to the Kingdom of Sweden where he resided as a refugee.

He died in Erbil on July 23, 2006 and was buried in the Ain Kawa cemetery near Erbil. He was fluent in the following languages: Syriac, Arabic, English, French, Kurdish, Swedish and Persian.

The pages of struggle

He became involved with the Iraqi Independence Party in 1946. He was one of the founders of the People's Party in 1946 and the owner of the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Rawafid. He assumed responsibility for the Mosul branch of the People's Party in 1947. He joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1948. On June 4, 1956, he became the owner of the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Ra'id, which was published in Mosul and shut down on July 14, 1958, by the military authorities. On May 7, 1959, he became the owner and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Al-Haqiqa (or Rasti), which was published in Mosul in both Arabic and Kurdish. It was shut down on April 3, 1960, after the publication of its 24th issue, by the government of the Republic of Iraq. In January 1959, he supported the Iraqi Communist Party's teachers' list in the Iraqi Teachers' Union elections in Mosul. He played a role in organizing the 1959 peace demonstrations in Mosul, which were organized by the Iraqi Communist Party. He also played a role in suppressing the coup attempt by Colonel Abdul Wahab al-Shawaf (1916-1959) in Mosul. Mosul.

In 1959, he was a member of the editorial board of Khabat newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq. In 1960, he practiced law in Mosul. In 1961, when the war broke out... September Revolution He collaborated with engineer Shawkat, also known as Shawkat Akre Yi, in secretly publishing the newspaper Khabat, the mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in Baghdad. In 1961, he was arrested by the Iraqi government authorities and imprisoned in Ramadi prison in western Iraq. In the same year, he was released from prison and granted amnesty, and he resumed publishing Khabat. On June 9, 1963, while serving as an advisor to the delegation negotiating with the Baghdad regime at the First People's Congress (Koysanjak Congress), he was arrested by the National Guard militias of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and subjected to torture.

In 1968, he was a member of the editorial board of Al-Kader magazine and Al-Taakhi newspaper, and the second editor-in-chief of Al-Taakhi newspaper in Arabic. In 1968, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces. September RevolutionIn 1968-1969, he was a professor of contemporary Iraqi scientific, political, and historical principles in the first session of the Institute for Training Revolutionary Teachers. Also in 1968-1969, he was a professor of Iraqi affairs and conditions in the first session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's cadre training school in the village of Choman, within the liberated areas of Erbil Governorate. In 1969, he was a professor of political science in the second session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's cadre training school in the village of Nawberdan, within the liberated areas of Erbil Governorate. On June 12, 1970, by order of the leader, he became Mustafa Barzani(1903-1979) He was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation to visit the city of Najaf in western Iraq to participate in the mourning ceremony held for the death of the Grand Ayatollah Abdul-Muhsin al-Hakim (1889-1970), the Grand Ayatollah Abdul-Muhsin al-Hakim (1889-1970), the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council issued a subsequent order canceling the order of the military court in Mosul that had been issued against him. In 1970, he was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the delegates of the Eighth Conference. From July 1970 until November 1970, he was a professor of Iraqi geography in the third session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Training School in Baghdad. In 1970, he was arrested and tortured by the authorities of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and imprisoned in Qasr al-Nihaya for seventy days on the grounds that he had written an article on the occasion of the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970) in the newspaper Al-Ta'akhi. After traveling to Lebanon in 1973, he was imprisoned for a period by the Lebanese intelligence service. In 1973-1974, he was assigned by order of the president. Masoud Barzani As a member of the committee that drafted the Kurdistan Region Federalism Project, in 1974 he was one of the founders of the Kurdistan Red Crescent. Also in 1974, he was a professor of the curriculum and internal regulations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the sixth session of the KDP Cadre Training School in the village of Zinwe Sheikhi, Erbil Governorate. From 1974 to 1975, he was the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Al-Kader" and the newspaper "Khabat," the official mouthpiece of the KDP. He returned to Kurdistan on April 25, 1999, and was received by the President of the Kurdistan National Council, the lawyer Jawhar Namiq Salem(1946-2011) In the city of Erbil, on Sunday, October 15, 2000, he was received by the President of the Kurdistan National Council, Dr. Roj Nuri Sadiq, known as Rozh Nouri ShawisOn April 3-5, 2001, he participated in the first academic conference on Kirkuk at the Cultural Hall in Erbil, where he delivered a speech.

Among his works:

1. Lights on the Assyrian Question - 1933.

2. The historical origins of the international labor movement - 1946.

3. Overthrowing the government is not done in this way - 1990.

4. The Kuwait Adventure, The Face and the Background - 1991, his duet in Bhargada.

5. War crimes and their perpetrators in Iraq and Kuwait - 1992.

6. Assyrian investigations, a history that history has neglected - 1997.

7. A Visit to the Recent Past - 1998.

8. The beginning of the spread of Christianity in Mesopotamia. See the brightness.

9. Kurdistan or Death - (Chapi Yekm - 1986), (Chapi Doom - 2012), and Horgangan.

10. On war crimes, crimes against peace and racial genocide - (Chapi Douhm - 2004).

11. The Cradle of Humanity - (Chapi Hekhem - 1971), (Chapi Hekhem - 2001), (Chapi Jehovah - 2010), (Chapi Pinkhem - 2012), And Horgan.

 12. South Kurdistan - (Chapi Douham - 1999), (Chapi Sihem - 2001), (Chapi Chavarham - 2012), and Horgangan.

13. The Republic of Mahabad - (Chapi Yehkim - 1972), (Chapi Doohim - 2012), and Horgan.

 14.  Iraq during the era of Qasim - 2012, and Harghan had a duet in Hargada.

 15.  The rise and fall of the Third Reich - 2012, and Horgan had a duet in Baghdad.

 16. Perspectives on Arab Nationalism - 2012, by Bing Bahrgda.

 17. Al-Sir - 2005, Horganghan has a seat in Bhargada.

 18. Men and Events in the Scale - 2012.

19. Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini - 2012, Horgan.

 20. Two studies on the sidelines of the revolution of Sheikh Ubaid Allah al-Nahri - (Chapter 2000), (Chapter Douhoum - 2010), (Chapter Siehem - 2012), and Horgan.

 21. The Kurds' Awakening - 2012, his duet is that he hates it as a Kurd and has a copy of it. Drawah.

22. On war crimes, crimes against peace and racial genocide - 2014.

23. History of Arabic music, and Horganization.

 24. Carmen Prosser - 1954, Horgan.

25. The oath of the legal entity in the decisions of the Court of Cassation of Iraq.

 26. A Journey to Brave Men in Kurdistan, (Chapi Doohim - 1999), (Chapi Sihem - 2012), and Horgan.

 27. How to butt the sky - 1953, Horgan. 

28. The Last Condemned to Death, 1933, Horgan.

 29.  Memories of the House of the Dead, 1953, Horgan.

 30.  The story of the jury - 1958, Horgan.

31. Mosul, the mother of springs - 1956.

32. The oath of the legal entity in the decisions of the Iraqi court - 1957.

33. The Heritage of Islam - (Chapi Yehkem - 1954), (Chapi Doohem - 2012), and Hargan, his duet.

32. Kurds, Turks, and Arabs - (Chapi Yehkam - 197), (Chapi Douham - 2012), and Horgan.

33. The meaning of the names of sounds in the Book of Songs by Al-Isfahani - 1958.

34. Jury - 1953.

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22. Jarjis was the first person to write about it, and he would write about it as a political leader from 1900 to 1925, and he would feel that he was dry, in a state of confusion, (Dahak) Dehzghai Tuyjinah and Baghdad Mokryani - Chapkhaneh Khani - 2009g), LL 1, 345, 752. 

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31. Rizgar Nouri Shawhais, we secretly issued Khabat in Baghdad after it was disrupted, Khabat newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Unified Kurdistan Democratic Party, issue 922, Erbil, Friday, April 30, 1999, pp. 8-9. 

32. Renée Morris, Kurdistan or Death, translated and commented by Jirgis Fathallah Al-Mohammi, (London - Kurdology - 1986 AD), pp. 1, 143. 

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34. There are many different places in Kurdistan, like this one. 26 April 26, 2018 1999g, l. 1. 

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37. Mr. Barzani sends a delegation to participate in the mourning ceremonies held in memory of the late Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim, Al-Ta'akhi Newspaper, Issue 461, Baghdad, Dar al-Jahiz Press, Saturday, June 13, 1970, p. 5.

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