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Biography of Naji Sabri Akreyi
' '  - Naji Sabri Ahmad Akreyi( Akrawi) was born in Baghdad (December 15, 1945). - He finished elementary school in the city of Akre and middle and preparatory education in Mosul. - Naji Sabri joined Kurdistan Students Union in 1960. - He was expelled from the University of Law in Baghdad-Iraq because of his pro-Kurdish activities and was imprisoned several times by Baathist_Iraq for years. - In 1968, Naji Sabri Akrawi joined the Kurdish Revolution of Aylul [|Aylul](September). - He followed the Kurdish revolutionary movement which was leaded by the general [|Mulla Mustafa Barzani] When he joined kurdish Peshmarga forces Peshmerga he continued his journalistic and political activities and become the head of the committee who was responsible to prepare the city of [|Duhok] for Peshmarga's to be taken over, at that time the Kurds[] were facing massive struggles. - In 1975, he fled to Iran due to the persecution of Kurds in Iraq and there he become responsible for the Kurdish refugee camp [|Zewa] in Iranian Kurdistan []. After the announcement of general pardon by Ba’athists many Kurds who were fled to abroad returned back to their home, Naji Sabri was one of them and he went back to Akre to see his father who was in his last life stage. After his father passed away he started as director of municipality in a sub-district in [|Duhok], after a short period he was exiled to Southern parts of Iraq first to Rammadi than to Al-Ba’aj district. -In the 1980s he established in [|Erbil] via his personal network with his Chaldean friend and businessman he got the opportunity to become the general director of an Italian company (Tecnomasio Italiano Brown Bovri) in Erbil. Naji Akrawi started to support homeless families by employing people after coming back from Iran who were forced to live in camps. ⁃ He started by employing people as cooks, drivers, gardeners, machinists etc. Especially those who were living in Qushtapa camp he supported mostly financial by distributing them primary needs of life. He started a fund by collecting different financial support especially from wealthy Christian individuals in Erbil to support those in need. - After the March uprising of 1991, he became a member of the editorial board of the Khabat []newspaper through his writing. - Due to his political activities related to his writings he was endangered and in 1995 he decided to fled and he submitted a political asylum in the Netherlands[]. - After his settlement in the Netherlands he resumed his writings and patriotic activities by extended the Kurdish case internationally and participated in a wide range of international conferences concerning the Iraqi and Kurdish issue. The most important ones; -The Iraqi National Congress for Human Rights Advocacy in 2001. - In 2005, he participated in The London Congress which was held to enhance democracy in Iraq (after the fall of Saddam’s regime). The congress was orchestrated to discuss and propose laws in the new Iraqi constitution. - He introduce some suggesting concerning federalism which were noted for examination. However, due to sensitivity and complexity of the subject in question is still a point of discussion in Iraq. - Was a member of the Dutch Refugee Organization, VluchtelingenWerk Nederland (VWN) [] - Naji Sabri had an influential role in the accussement of the Dutch war criminal and businessman [|Frans van Anraat]who sold raw materials for the production of chemical weapons to Iraq during the reign of [|Sadam Hussein]. Naji Sabri was one of the few inviters who attended the court when van Anraat was condemned. -Naji Sabri supported the international campaign regarding the recognition of the Anfalization and the genocide against the Kurds. He published a large number of articles thus publicly introduced important evidence about the anfalization which was later used during the court process against Frans van Anraat [|Frans van Anraat]. - A few month before Naji Akrawy passed away, he uncovered the truth behind one of the military ba’athist leaders who was directly linked to the killing of the former republican president of Iraq [|Abdulkarim Qasim]. The exposure by Naji Akrawi was for the purpose to be used in the court for the benefit regarding the Kurdish case by highlighting Saddam Hussein’s past inhuman and merciless criminal activities. -The CHAK Organization, which is an independent and internationally recognized organization of anfalization and genocide against Kurds hand over Naji Akrawy a honaray membership medal due to his national involvement. - He was editor-in-chief of the Hammurabi newspaper - He was the director of Kurdish Cultural Centre in Diaspora - He was advisor of the Kurdistan Media Online Platform - He was member of Kurdistan Journalists Union - He was the general secretary of the Anti-Racism Association Against the Kurds. - In 2004, he was diagnosed with cancer. -On June 2, 2008, Naji Sabri passed away as his corpse was taken to his final resting place and hometown Akre where he was buried. - Naji Sabri was a political and cultural advisor whose influence occurred in many political and journalistic platforms. He published a large number of useful political and analytical articles in many important Arabic newspapers and magazines. The majority of his articles are considered and used as important sources for studies and research. - As an honour for his soul, for —the first of its kind and the Ministry of Culture and Youth of the Kurdistan Regional Government organized a cultural festival for three days (28, 29 and 30 October 2009). The ministry invited a variety of writers, journalists, politicis and over 200 guests of academic and intellectuals living abroad within Kurds, Arabs and other nationalities to participate with their writings, poems, exhibitions, where they also held a lot of different seminars and shared opinions about the political situation in the area. The ministry also dedicated a book which they published within a collection of his writings. Naji Akrawi was shown as an example and how his main focus was based on the national and international struggle of the Kurds and the latter was seen as self-expression and an important job of the intellectuals in abroad. Naji Akrawy has played an important role in the Kurdish diaspora as his efforts were mainly providing services to his culture and nation, despite the difficult circumstances that many Iraqi/ Kurdish intellectual has been going through in the past years as a diaspora. This festival was seen as a start for many Kurdish national and international political and cultural writers to be recognized and honoured by the Kurdish Government. - Naji Akrawi was considered and symbolized as a Kurdish pen and platform for free progressive thoughts. By entrancing the City of Akre [|Akre] a memorial statue [] [] [] is built as a symbolic way to represent an example of a true intellectual who struggle for the recognition of the Kurdish case worldwide.

References:
https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/11/05/22262.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/11/05/22261.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/05/27/18577.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2008/07/23/11094.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2008/06/08/10184.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2008/06/06/10154.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/06/03/18805.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/20/23110.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/10/09/21879.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/20/23113.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2008/07/23/11096.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/20/23118.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/20/23121.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/10/19/22133.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/21/23124.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/11/13/22494.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/05/27/18577.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/10/19/22134.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2008/07/23/11098.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2008/07/23/11095.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2008/07/23/11092.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2008/06/13/10289.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2008/06/02/10071.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/12/23088.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/20/23108.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/20/23109.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/12/23085.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/13/23091.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/21/23126.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/20/23115.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/20/23116.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/20/23120.html https://www.gilgamish.org/2009/12/20/23117.html

Some of Articles written by N.S.Akrawi we found online 2002/2003
1.	https://www.sauress.com/alhayat/31029773 2.	https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=11163 3.	https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=9457 4.	https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=6051 5.	https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=1352 6.	https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=8661 7.	https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=4105 8.	https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=5782 9. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=8108 10. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=3900 11. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=1382 12. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/s.asp?aid=1463&t=4 13. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=2424 14. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=8833 15. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=7508 16. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=2684 17. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=11163 18. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=2684 19. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=3519 20. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=7933 21. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=2795 22.https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=2240 23. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=2881 24.https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=6191 25.https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=2511 26. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=5782 27.https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=4105 28.https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=1352 29.https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=4475 30.https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=5639 31.https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=3822 32. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=8661 33. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=2288 34. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=4062 35.https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=2331 36. https://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=8558