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Rashid Muhammad-Said al-Rifai, ((アラビア語:رشيد محمد-سعيد الرفاعي)) (May 1, 1929 – September 3, 2009), was an Iraqi academic, Ba'athist, ambassador and minister of several establishments in Iraq. He was most noted for his highly successful posts as Oil, Planning, Housing, Communications and Transportation Minister Between 1968 and 1975. Rifai is credited for playing a major role in the development of the Iraqi infrastructure during this seven-year period. He was later made Ambassador by special appointment to Belgium (1975-1983), China (1983-1986) and Japan (1986-1993). After retiring in 1993, he served as an adviser to the Iraqi Foreign Minister, a member of the Iraqi Presidential Opinion Committee and a member of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, Iraq until the invasion and subsequent downfall of the government on April 9, 2003. Rifai remained in Baghdad for the next three years but refused to participate in the new government on ideological bases. He left Baghdad in 2006 after the situation became intolerable and lived there with his wife, Nabiha al-Timimi in the Hashmite Kingdom of Jordan. They have four children, Rabab, Said, Faris and Mazin. ==Early life== Rashid al-Rifai was born in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq at a time when it was very underdeveloped, the son of Muhammad-Said Alwan Rifai (1888-1979) a customs official who was originally from the city of Al Musayyib in Babil Province south of the Capital. His mother, Fatima was a housewife until her death in 1982. As the oldest male in a family of seven children (2 girls and 5 boys), he spent most of his youth supporting his siblings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rashid al-Rifai」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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