Shakib Saeed Sharif Rashid, known as Shakib Akrayi, a jurist and politician, in the year 1966 was the assistant head of the Intelligence and Security Affairs Committee of the Executive Office (Al-Maktab al-Tanfidhi) of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, in the year 1967 he was one of the founders of the Parastin Agency and deputy head of this agency, in the year 1967 he participated in the Kani Samak military-political conference and in the year 1973 in the Choman political-military conference in Erbil province, in the year 1970 he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the Eighth Congress.

Biography

Shakib Saeed Sharif Rashid was born in the city of Akre, in the year 1914 a member of his family, Ahmed, was imprisoned in the city of Mosul for his support of Sheikh Abdulsalam II Barzani and passed away in the Mosul prison, in the year 1958 he joined the ranks of the Party, in the year 1960 he received his bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Baghdad, in the year 1961 he was the director of the Dwaya sub-district in Nasiriyah province in southern Iraq, in the year 1962 he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces, on the 23 of December 1962 by the General Military Court in Dhi Qar province his movable and immovable property was confiscated, in the year 2017 he passed away, he was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, and English languages.

Struggle Record

Shakib Saeed Sharif Rashid in the year 1964 was a representative of the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the town of Qaladiza in Sulaymaniyah province, in the year 1966 he was the financial officer of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at the beginning of March 1966 he participated in a three-month Parastin course abroad, in the year 1966 he was a representative of the Seventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the town of Galala in Erbil province, in the year 1966 he was the assistant head of the Intelligence and Security Affairs Committee of the Executive Office (Al-Maktab al-Tanfidhi) of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, in the year 1967 he was one of the founders of the Parastin Agency and deputy head of this agency, on the 15 of April 1967 under the supervision of President Mustafa Barzani as a representative of the Parastin Agency of the Aylul Revolution he was a representative at the Kani Samak military-political conference (Erbil), in the years (1968-1969) he was a teacher of the Revolution Security course in the first session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school in the village of Choman in Erbil province, in the year 1969 he was a teacher of the Parastin course in the second session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school in the village of Nawprdan in Erbil province, in the year 1970 by the representatives of the Eighth Congress he was elected with 210 votes as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at the end of May 1970 he visited the shrine of the martyr Abdulaziz Atrushi (1937-1969) in the town of Halabja in Sulaymaniyah province, on the 15 of July 1970 he participated in the opening ceremony of the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union in the village of Nawprdan in Erbil province.

In the year 1970 he participated in the hospitality ceremony for the teachers of the third session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school in the liberated areas of Erbil province, on Friday the 30 of March 1973 he participated in the Choman Newroz festival, on the 18 of April 1973 he participated in the opening of the Choman Tuberculosis Hospital, in the year 1973 he was a teacher of the Parastin course in the fourth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school in the village of Nawprdan, from the days of 27 to the 29 of November 1973 he participated in the Choman political-military conference, in the year 1974 he was a teacher of the Parastin course in the fifth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school in the village of Ziney Shekh in Erbil province, in the year 1974 he was a teacher of the Parastin and Psychological Warfare course in the sixth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school in the village of Ziney Shekh, in the year 1975 after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he was a refugee in the Kingdom of Iran, in the year 1975 he went to the United Kingdom as a refugee, in the year 1976 he went to the United States of America and settled there. On the 5 of December 1979 the decision to confiscate his movable and immovable property was reaffirmed, in the year 1980 he received a doctorate in Law in the United States of America, on the 23 of October 2017 he passed away due to illness in one of the hospitals in the United States of America. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, and English languages.

Among his works:

1. Sanawat al-Mihna fi Kurdistan: Aham al-Hawadith al-Siyasiyya wa al-Askariyya fi Kurdistan wa al-Iraq min 1958 ila 1980-2007.

2. Rasa'il min Kurdistan - 2011.

3. Saddam Hussein: Nuhudan wa Nukusan 2017.

Sources:
  1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.
  2. Shakib Aqrawi, Rasa'il min Kurdistan, (Erbil - Shahab Press - 2011 AD), pp. 1, 343.
  3. Shakib Aqrawi, Saddam Hussein: Nuhudan wa Nukusan, (Erbil - Haji Hashim Press - 2009 AD), pp. 1 - 440.
  4. Shwan Muhammad-Amin Taha Khoshnaw, Erbil bayn Sanawat 1963 - 1970: Dirasa Tarikhiyya fi al-Awda' al-Siyasiyya, (Erbil - Salahaddin University Press - 2016 AD), p. 304.
  5. Qarar al-Hay'a al-'Amma li-Idarat wa Tasfiyat al-Amwal al-Mahjuza raqm 4478, Jaridat al-Waqa'i' al-Iraqiyya, Wizarat al-'Adl, al-'Adad 2761, al-Sana al-Thaniya wa al-'Ishrun, Baghdad, 10 Adhar 1980 AD, p. 27.
  6. Masoud Barzani, Al-Barzani wa al-Haraka al-Tahruriyya al-Kurdiyya, Vol. III, Second Edition, (Erbil - Ministry of Education Press - 2002 AD), pp. 188, 253.