Biography

Dilshad Shahab was born in 1972. In 1978, he and his family were expelled from their homeland by the Ba'ath regime and settled in the Harir complex. In 1983, his grandfather and father were Anfalized by the Ba'ath regime. He completed the Civil Engineering Department at Salahaddin University. In 2009, he became a member of the third term of the Kurdistan National Council, and in 2012, in the seventh cabinet, he became the Minister of Municipalities and Tourism of the Kurdistan Regional Government. He is proficient in Kurdish and Arabic languages.

Struggle Record

Dilshad Shahab joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Students and Youth Union in 1991, and in 1993, at the Eighth Congress which is known as the Congress of Freedom, he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the Kurdistan Students Union and became the head of the Salahaddin University Branch Committee. He was the head of the University District Committee affiliated with the Second Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 2004 he was appointed as an administrator of the Second Branch Committee.

In 2009, he became a member of the third term of the Kurdistan National Council and was made a member of the Reconstruction, Housing, and Rural Modernization Committee in the Kurdistan National Council.

In 2010, at the Thirteenth Congress he was elected as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and two years later, in the seventh cabinet, he became the Minister of Municipalities and Tourism of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

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