Ali Mahmud al-Shaykh
Ali Mahmud al-Shaykh Ali al-Hiazi al-Obeidi is an Iraqi politician, born on June 3, 1901, in Abu Ghraib.

Life 
He entered politics in 1922, when he entered the elections of the House of Representatives and won the Diwaniya Brigade.

He served as Minister of Justice in the Ministry of Hikmat Suleiman as a replacement for Salih Jabr, who resigned in 1937.

He also briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1941 in the third ministry of Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, as well as minister of justice in the fourth ministry of Rashid al-Kilani the same year.

After the May Revolution of 1941, he was imprisoned on 2 May 1942 and released on 16 June 1947.

He returned to the position of finance minister in the ministry of Mustafa al-Omari for a short time in November 1952 in place of the dismissed minister Ibrahim Shabandar, and then continued his position in the ministry of Noureddine Mahmoud.

Literature 
His notes were published in 1985 by the examination and commentary of Dr. Mohammed Hussein al Zubaidi.

In 2015, the research of the master student Mahd Talib in the College of Education - University of Qadisiyah entitled: "Ali Mahmoud Shaykh Ali and his role in the history of Iraq 1901–1958".

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Iraqi memoirists
1901 births
Foreign ministers of Iraq
Finance ministers of Iraq
1968 deaths
20th-century memoirists
Iraqi collaborators with Nazi Germany
Iraqi prisoners and detainees
Prisoners and detainees of Iraq