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Sahar Najib Sulaiman Kharrufa (سهر نجيب خروفة), born Dec. 1952, Baghdad, Iraq, is an Iraqi architect and academic. In Iraq he is best known as a pioneer in introducing CAD to Iraq and for his architectural work.

Sahar Kharrufa was born in the city of Baghdad in 1952. His father, Dr Najib Kharrufa, was a hydraulics engineer, and a professor emeritus in the University of Baghdad. Dr Sahar Kharrufa finished his BSc and MSc in Architecture from the University of Baghdad, and his PhD from the University of Bath in 1985 under the supervision of the late Professor M. Brawne. He is currently an Associate Professor in Ajman University in the U.A.E.

Most of Dr Kharrufa's architectural work was done through his design office in Baghdad. He taught and supervised post graduate students of architecture from the mid eighties onward. On the research front he has published in the fields of CAD, university design, and green building,.

Upon his return to Baghdad from his studies in England, he was handed the responsibility of establishing the first CAD laboratory in the then "Council for Scientific Research", which was the largest research establishment in Iraq. The lack of any other facility in the country which specialized in computer aided design lead to a rapid rise in its reputation .During this period he wrote his second CAD program and established himself as a main figure in the field in Iraq. This was to affect his life from there onwards as he became known as "the computer man" in Iraqi architectural circles.

In 1988 he opened his design office along with five other partners with the purpose of utilizing computers in design. Most of his best architectural work was accomplished while working there. Most distinguished among these were the "Baghdad Olympic Stadium" for the Turkish company Yiltas and the "Adnan Khairallah" mosque. Overall he designed over 250 projects in Iraq, Libya, Kazakhistan, the UAE and Jordan.

Most of Dr Kharrufa's academic career was associated with the Department of Architecture in the University of Technology, Iraq. He worked there from 1991 to 2006, when he was forced to leave Baghdad due to the deteriorating security situation in the country.