Baghdad The media office of the Arab League announced this evening, the death of Ambassador Dr. Qais Al-Azzawi, Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League, and the former head of the media sector at the League, following a struggle with illness.

Ambassador Qais Al-Azzawi is an Iraqi politician who was appointed as Iraq’s delegate to the Arab League for five years, and later became, in addition to this position, head of the Media Committee of the Arab League.

Ambassador Qais Al-Azzawi studied in Egypt in 1963, where he joined Cairo University and then Ain Shams University, and he came mainly to study law, but he turned to study psychology, where he obtained a BA in this field in 1969 from Ain Shams University.

Ambassador Al-Azzawi later traveled to France, where he studied at the French Sorbonne University and obtained a doctorate degree in the history of the Ottoman states, where he was a specialist in military sociology. He also obtained a master’s degree in Islamic philosophy from the Institute of Islamic Studies in Cairo.

Ambassador Qais Al-Azzawi lived for more than 35 years outside Iraq due to his opposition, especially his opposition to the Shatt Al-Arab Agreement between Iraq and Algeria in 1975.

Iraq had canceled his Iraqi passport, but the Syrian authorities granted him a Syrian passport in 2003.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency