Nouri al-Maliki is the statesman, deciding the fate of Iraq between 2006 and 2014. His policies stand before us as the main reason behind the deep instability faced by the country.

He was born in 1950 as the son of a middle class family in Hindiyah, southern Baghdad. His grandfather Muhammad Hasan Abi al-Mahasin, was a poet, cleric and activist, who fought against the British in the Iraqi revolution of 1920. Under his influence, he entered politics at a very early age. By the end of 1960s, he was one of the most prominent members of the Islamic Dawa Party.

As a determined Shia dissident, he was also a major figure in the fight against the Baath Movement under the leadership of Saddam Hussein. In 1979, upon hearing that he was to be executed by the Baath Party, he fled into exile by taking the journey from Syria to Jordan. There he made efforts to strengthen the “Islamic-Shiite” guerrilla resistance against the Baath. After 10 years, we saw him in Tehran, the capital of Iran…

In his absence, he was sentenced to death by the Baath Regime in 1980. This situation went on until 2003, when the regime was overthrown. Saddam was ousted from power by the US-UK alliance; and then, he returned home as the most important figure in Iraqi politics…