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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|68th prime minister of Iraq}}<br />
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|name = Mohsen Abdel Hamid<br><small>محسن عبد الحميد</small><br />
|office = [[Iraqi Governing Council|President of the Governing Council of Iraq]]<br />
|term_start = 1 February 2004<br />
|term_end = 29 February 2004<br />
|predecessor = [[Adnan Pachachi]]<br />
|successor = [[Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum]]<br />
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1937}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Kirkuk]], [[Kingdom of Iraq|Iraq]]<br />
|death_date = <br />
|death_place = <br />
|party = [[Iraqi Islamic Party]]<br />
|profession = [[Lawyer]]<br />
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'''Mohsen Abdel Hamid''' (born 1937 {{lang-ar|محسن عبد الحميد}}) is an Iraqi politician and Islamic scholar who was a member of the [[Interim Iraq Governing Council]] (president, February 2004), created following the [[United States]]'s [[2003 invasion of Iraq]]. He served as the [[Iraqi Governing Council|President of the Governing Council of Iraq]] ([[List of Prime Ministers of Iraq|42nd]] [[Prime Minister of Iraq]]).<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Abdel Hamid was born in 1937 in [[Kirkuk]] and is of [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] background.<ref name=Niq>[http://www.niqash.org/content.php?contentTypeID=152&id=1008 Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060623094952/http://niqash.org/content.php?contentTypeID=152&id=1008 |date=2006-06-23 }}, ''[[Niqash]]'', 2005-11-07, accessed 2007-01-28</ref> He studied Islamic Law in [[Cairo]] and returned to Iraq in 1986 to work as a professor at [[Baghdad University]]. Abdel Hamid has written over 30 books on interpretation of the [[Qur'an]]. He was arrested in 1996 by the government of [[Saddam Hussein]] but opposed the 2003 [[invasion of Iraq]].<br />
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Until 2004 he was the secretary general of the [[Iraqi Islamic Party]], the largest [[Sunni]] party in Iraq, and as a result was appointed to the Iraqi Governing Council.<br />
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On May 30, 2005, Abdel Hamid was mistakenly [[arrested]] by [[United States|U.S.]] troops.<ref>[https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=804064 ABC News: ABC News<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><br />
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==Personal website ==<br />
* https://web.archive.org/web/20150402134446/http://drmohsinah.com/<br />
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