IRAQ Female suffrage 1964/80
Mesopotamia was a Turkish Province until 1923, Kingdom 1921-58, Republic since 1958, 2003 invaded by USA and the Coalition Forces and put under administration until 2005
1959-60 Minister of Municipalities Dr Naziha Jawdet Ashgah al-Dulaimi 1960 Minister of State without Portfolio
Naziha al-Dulaimi was the only member from the Communist Party in 'Abd al-Karim Qasim's government after the over-trough of the monarchy in 1958. Settled in Eastern Europe in the 1970s and at the time of her death she lived in Germany, and lived (1923-2007).
1969-72 Minister of Higher Education Dr. Suad Khalil Ismail
2001-03 Member of the Revolutionary Command Council Dr. Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash
The only female in the Iraq Command, the 18-member council that ran the Baath Party, Chairperson of the Baath Party Youth and Trade Bureau as well as a party regional commander. Iraq's Microbiology Society from 1996, and Saddam Hussein's unofficial ambassador to Jordan, Lebanon and Yemen and as the Dean of the University of Baghdad. Detained by the US-troops in 2003 and released in 2005 together with Dr. Rihab Rashid Taha who had been in charge of the development of weapons-grade anthrax and botulinum. Ammash's father was a high-level Baath Party member in Iraq, who became defense minister in 1963, deputy prime minister in 1968, and an ambassador in 1977. He is believed to have been killed on the orders of Saddam Hussein. Mother of 4 children, and (b. 1953-).
