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Sattar Jabbar Rahman (born April 26, 1974 in Baghdad) is a researcher, an Iraqi activist and a  secularist democratic political analyst. He studied philosophy and theology. Through that field of study he delved deeper into political philosophy and socio-political studies. Sattar Jabbar Rahman is mainly interested in studying the socio-political-cultural structure of the Arab region,. in contemporary democratic transitions in the Middle East and North Africa, in human rights, in women's issues and in the environment challenges, he founded the European Center for Middle East Studies to become the Chief Executive Officer of the center.

Early life
Sattar Jabbar Rahman was born on April 26, 1974 in one of the popular neighbourhoods in the city of Baghdad. He completed his schooling and then enrolled in the Medical Technical Institute. He was graduated from the Babylon Pontifical College of Philosophy and Theology. After that he has studied philosophy at Al-Mustansiriyah University in Baghad, his interest in philosophy and political sociology was early, however his political activism emerged in the field of human rights including minority rights  ,and democratic transitions discussions after the fall of the Baath regime, following the invasion of Iraq by the United States and the accompanying political openness and political freedoms In addition to Sattar Jabbar Rahman's activism in the field of human rights, minorities rights and various other political and democratic activities, he has also organized and participated extensively in many cultural, social and media activities and thus he is a well-known thinker, an analyst and a political activist

Contributions
Sattar Jabbar Rahman played a significant role by founding the European Center for Middle East Studies. and by holding the center's CEO position ، He was interested in studying the local contexts in the Middle East and North Africa, specifically contemporary changes and democratic transitions, as well as issues of culture, women, and the environment, on this context he intends to make the center "'an organic academic act that contributes to shedding light on issues, interpreting them, and analyzing the apparent form of the phenomenon and its hidden content, an academic act that history makes and contributes to its corrective reproduction'"

Contributions to the field of democracy
In addition to his intellectual output Sattar Jabbar Rahman has been active as a defender of human rights and minority rights in Iraq through his work with local and international human rights organizations ,in particular, his membership in the Society for the Defense of Threatened Peoples ,besides of being a human rights defender, he is a political analyst of democratic transitions in the Arab region   For instance he is contributing in analyzing current political issues in the Arab region  ، Furthermore, Sattar Jabbar Rahman chaired the European Scientific Center's first international conference entitled: Elections and the Challenges of Democratization   ، which discussed the relationship between elections and democracy and the issue of the rise of authorities that do not believe in democracy through the ballot box, where Sattar Jabbar Rahman summarized this dilemma through the conference by saying  "'Our societies today are in urgent need of studying the phenomenon of democratization and tracking its different paths, its different manifestations, the failures of its implementation, and the resulting cases of regression and lack of confidence in the democratic option. Elections are one of those practices that contribute to the perpetuation of backsliding, and their results sometimes compromise the continuity of the democratic transition.'"He also chaired the second European Scientific Center International Conference entitled: "New Prospects for Political Transitions: The Present and Future of Democracy in the Arab Region" He diagnosed the importance of studying democratization and its relationship with the socio-economic structure, as he noted: "'The predicament of democratization in the Arab region lies in the absence or at least weakness of the social support for democracy. Democracy in the Arab region is still an elite desire for enlightened intellectual groups, mainly due to the rentier and semi-rentier mode of economic production, on the one hand, and the distorted one controlled by the bureaucratic and parasitic bourgeoisie, on the other hand..'" Sattar Jabbar Rahman has also contributed to the field of heritage preservation through his press interviews and television and radio interviews ، in addition to his key role in organizing and chairing the third ESC International Conference entitled: Heritage of the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges of Disappearance and Tasks of Identity Preservation  held in Tunis on February 25-26, 2023 ،and unfortunalety, the Tunisian authorities did not grant him a visa, forcing him to run the conference remotely.

Democracy
Sattar Jabbar Rahman does not consider democracy as a static form, He usually referring to it as "democratization." He argues that democracy still unrealized ideal ,and that ideal cannot be realized unless humans are freed from all forms of exploitation. In addition, There is not a only path to this transformation because democratization is governed by the objective conditions of each society, and he believes that the realization of democracy depends on the strength and influence of its class incubator, and that the link between elections and democracy was made to manipulate the collective awareness

Woman's situation
His contributions are also crucial in the context of examining the liberation of the Arab woman, and connecting the deprivation of her freedom to the concept of authoritarianism: "Authoritarianism is not based on an intellectual gap, it is mainly based on the fact that the other is unable to know his interests or protect himself, therefore his freedom is taken from her because she misuses it, so for authoritarian thought, the freedom of women means a moral deviation, as she is unable to make a correct moral judgment, and this is basically the intellectual basis of both authoritarianism and the oppression of women. He also believes that women's liberation is a political and social liberation, which requires radical changes in the legal and value system, so women's freedom and full equality is a cornerstone of any movement that seeks to enshrine the concepts of equality, dignity and freedom.

Publications
Sattar Jabbar Rahman has several research and intellectual publications in a variety of fields, in addition to numerous journalistic interviews and political and intellectual analyses However, he has a number of published and peer-reviewed research papers to his credit.


 * اتحاد الشعب... الى اين سائرون؟
 * The economic and social consequences of IMF and World Bank policies
 * التفلسف والإيديولوجيا
 * Mechanism & Consequences of Iranian Influence in the Middle East
 * Taqsa:Theological Study, as an Introduction to Mandaean Liturgy
 * A collection of publications, articles and literary contributions on his Civilized Dialogue website