Jalal Talabani
Jalal Talabani is a leading Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the sixth President of Iraq from 2005 to 2014. He was the first nonArab president of Iraq, although Abdul Karim Qasim was of partial Kurdish heritage. He is known as Mam Jalal meaning uncle Jalal among Kurdish people.
Talabani was born in 1933 in Kelkan village and descends from the Talabani tribe that has produced many leading social figures including Riza Talabani. He received his elementary and intermediate school education in Koya and his high school education in Erbil and Kirkuk. When he was in his teens, Talabanis peers began referring to him as Mam Jalal, as mam meaning paternal uncle in Kurdish, and the Kurds have called him by this affectionate name ever since. In 1957, during the final year of his studies for a degree in law at Baghdad University, he was expelled because of his political activities. He completed his degree two years later.
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