Malik Dohan al-Hassan
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Malik Dohan al-Hassan | |
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مالك دوهان الحسن | |
 Al-Hassan in 2005 | |
| Minister of Culture and Information | |
| In office 1967–1968 | |
| Preceded by | Ahmed Matlab |
| Succeeded by | Salah Omar Al-Ali |
| Minister of Justice | |
| In office June 2004 – May 2005 | |
| Preceded by | Hashim Abdul-Rahman al-Shibli |
| Succeeded by | Abdel Hussein Shandal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 1, 1919 |
| Died | May 23, 2021 (aged 101)[1] |
| Alma mater | LLB – University of Baghdad, 1947 Diploma in Public and Private Law – Montpellier University, 1951 Doctorate in Law – University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, 1957 |
Malik Dohan al-Hassan (Arabic: مالك دوهان الحسن; 1 July 1919 – 23 May 2021) was an Iraqi politician and academician, who served as Minister of Culture and Information in 1967, headed the Iraqi Bar Association in 2003, and was the Minister of Justice in the Iraqi Interim Government in 2004.
Al-Hassan was born in al-Hilla, south of Baghdad, in 1919, to a Shi'a Arab family belonging to the Jubur clan, one of the largest clans in Iraq. He graduated from the University of Baghdad in 1947. He continued his studies in France where he received a Diploma in Public and Private Law from Montpellier University and a Doctorate in Law from the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He then became a Professor of Law at the University of Baghdad. He was elected President of the Al-Mustansiriya University in 1966. He authored seminal books in tort law that were taught in law schools in Iraq.
Pre-Saddam government
He was appointed the Minister of Culture and Information in 1967 by President Abdul Rahman Arif.[2]
During Saddam government
al-Hassan was imprisoned under Saddam Hussein for two years, then interned in Baghdad and was prohibited from travel for ten years. He was permanently banned from practicing politics and holding public office. As a result, al-Hassan practiced private law until the end of the Ba'athist rule over Iraq in 2003.[3]