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Dr. Saywan Barzani is an Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq. In 2010 Dr. Barzani was appointed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary  to Italy. He presented his credential letters to the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano July 7th 2010 and thereafter took up residence in Rome. Dr. Barzani is also the non resident Ambassador to Malta.

The Ambassador Dr. Saywan Barzani was born in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan on February 13 1972. His family was forced to flee Iraq and take refuge in Iran in 1974 in the wake of military suppression inflicted upon the Kurds in North iraq by the Saddam Hussein Regime. Dr. Barzani is the grandson of the late Mullah Mustapha Barzani, who lead the various uprisings against the Bathist regime in Baghdad over three decades. Massoud Barzani, the current president of the Kurdish Regional Government is his paternal uncle. The Kurds of Iraq who are not arabs and whose language is not arabic but Kurdish, were long persecuted by the Federal regime. The Barzani family were particularly targeted by Saddam Hussein as well as predecessor regimes during this period.

Saywan Barzani did his primary schooling in Iran and later attended secondary school in Baghdad. He was forced to flee Baghdad in 1986 during a renewed period of violence against the Kurds in Iraq. During this period Saywan Barzani's father was assasinated by the Bathist regime and 79 members of the Barzani family were among the thousands of victims murdered during the Anfar genocide.

In 1998 Dr. Saywan Barzani enrolled in the University of Orléans, France for his undergraduate studies. In 2001 he obtained a Master degree in Political Science – International Relations and Diplomacy at the University of Paris I Panthèon – Sorbonne. He also obtained a second Master's degree in Political Science –Government, political Institutions and Public Policies - at the same University in 2002. In 2005 he obtained a PhD in Political Science – University Paris I Panthèon – Sorbonne and graduated " Summa cum laude".

The Ambassador started his working career in 1992 as a Public relations office coordinator in Erbil and in 1997 was appointed a Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) representative in Europe. He then was elected in front of the National Council in France as Kurdistan Regional Government Representative from the year 1998 to 2008. He remained in this position until his appointment to the position of Ambassador to Italy.

Published works of Dr. Saywan Barzani

“Kurdistan of Iraq, 1918-2008” Book and Echo-Geo, research paper on Iraq and Middle East, PhD thesis – “The Iraqi Kurdistan Question 1991-2005” Which was Published by INARI 2007, “Confluences Méditerranée” –  Research paper, Paris, France, Master thesis – “Strategy of the Political Institutions in Iraqi Kurdistan, University research paper – “Foreign Immigration analysis in France” and  University research paper – “Parliamentary and Public Affairs work”.

Ambassador Barzani is married and has three children

Saywan Barzani fluently speaks Arabic,Kurdish,English,French, and Persian.

REFERENCES: Ministry of Foreign Affaires - Republic of Iraq - www.mofa.gov.iq