Saib Shawkat

Dr Saib Shawkat in his last days

Saib Shawkat (Arabic: صائب شوكت‎) was an Iraqi doctor and Arab nationalist leader.

Medical career

He was from an upscale patriotic Baghdadian family and studied at a medical school in Istanbul 1913-1918, completing post-graduate studies in general surgery in Germany. Shawkat was the first Iraqi doctor to teach anatomy at the Iraqi Royal College of Medicine of which he became the dean later in the 1940s.[1] He was one of the pioneers in general surgery in Iraq,[2] serving as Director General of Baghdad Hospital in the 1930s.[3] In 1932 he became a founding committee member of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society.[4] He attended King Ghazi after the car accident preceding his death.[5]

Politics

Shawkat was an Arab nationalist[6] with Nazi sympathies,[7] leading the nationalist Nadi al-Muthanna Club[8] and advocating the expulsion of Jews from Iraq.[9]

Family

Saib Shawkat was the brother of politician Naji Shawkat, who served as Prime Minister of Iraq from 1932-33.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Joseph E., Katz. "Middle Eastern Political and Religious History Analyst, http://www.midrash.org/articles/farhud/". Retrieved February 10, 2009.
  2. ↑ saib shawkat, http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/akramjfr/saibshawkat.html&date=2009-10-25+12:10:29
  3. ↑ Bidwell, Robin Leonard; Kenneth Bourne; Donald Cameron Watt (1986). British documents on foreign affairs : reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part II, From the First to the Second world war. Series B, Turkey, Iran, and the Middle-East, 1918-1939. Vol. 13 Eastern affairs, December 1937-September 1939. University Publications of America. p. 302. ISBN 978-0-89093-603-0.
  4. ↑ Red Cross World 13 (League of Red Cross Societies). 1932. p. 165. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ Elliot, Matthew (Autumn 1996). "The death of king Ghazi: Iraqi politics, Britain and Kuwait in 1939". Contemporary British History 10 (3): 63–81. doi:10.1080/13619469608581405.
  6. ↑ Ṣulḥ, Raghīd (1996). Britain's 2 Wars with Iraq. Ithaca Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-86372-176-2.
  7. ↑ Hamdi, Walid M. S. (1987). Rashid Ali Al-Gailani and the Nationalist Movement in Iraq 1939-1941. Darf. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-85077-164-7.
  8. ↑ Ghareeb, Edmund (2004). Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Scarecrow Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-8108-4330-1.
  9. ↑ Bidwell, Robin Leonard; Kenneth Bourne; Donald Cameron Watt (1986). British documents on foreign affairs : reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part II, From the First to the Second world war. Series B, Turkey, Iran, and the Middle-East, 1918-1939. Vol. 13 Eastern affairs, December 1937-September 1939. University Publications of America. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-89093-603-0.
  10. ↑ Marmorstein, Entile (July 1987). "Fritz Grobba". Middle Eastern Studies 23 (3): 376–378. doi:10.1080/00263208708700713.