Nisrin Barwari
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Nisrin Mustafa Sidiq Barwari (born 1967) was the Iraqi Minister for Municipalities and Public Works under the Iraqi Transitional Government. She was a member of the Transitional National Assembly elected on January 30, 2005.
Berwari is of Kurdish ancestry. She graduated from Baghdad University in 1991, with an undergraduate degree in architectural engineering and urban planning. She also holds a graduate degree in public policy and management from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She has also been an administrator for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, joining the organization's Baghdad office in 1991. Later, she worked as for four years as a minister in the Irbil-based Kurdish regional government. She has held her position as Iraqi Minister for Public Works since the first post-Baathist interim cabinet was formed in September 2003. At that time, she was the only woman in the cabinet.
Berwari has displayed concern for the rights of women in Iraq. In January 2004, she joined street protests against Resolution 137 of the Iraqi Governing Council, which would have curtailed women's rights by making Iraq's personal status law subject to religious doctrine
On 28 March 2004, she survived an assassination attempt near Mosul, in which three of her bodyguards were killed.
In September 2004, she married Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, then the President of Iraq.
[edit] References
- BBC News (2003-09-01). Iraq's post-war cabinet. Retrieved on 2006-02-24.
- BBC News (2004-06-01). Interim Iraqi government. Retrieved on 2006-02-24.
- BBC News (2005-05-08). New Iraqi government members. Retrieved on 2006-02-24.
- IWPR (2004-09-07). IWPR's Iraqi Press Monitor. Retrieved on 2006-04-05.
- Juan Cole (2004-03-19). Welcome to the Quagmire. Retrieved on 2006-04-05.
| Preceded by: Coalition Provisional Authority |
Minister for Municipalities and Public Works September 2003–current |
Succeeded by: current |
