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Mufid Mohammad Jawad al-Jazairi (b. 1939) is the current Iraqi Minister of Culture, part of the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003. A Shia Muslim and member of the Iraqi Communist Party, al-Jazairi was a journalist by profession. He worked for the Arabic desk at Czechoslovak Radio in the 1960s and 1970s and married Chech radio journalist Pavla Jazairiova. He returned to Iraq in the 1980s and became a member of the Kurdish opposition.
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