Iraq’s newly elected president, Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the 1960s, before engaging with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the mid-1970s, within a student opposition movement.
Rashid was born on Aug. 10, 1944, in the Kurdistan region of Sulaymaniyah, where he completed his primary and secondary education. In 1962, he traveled to the United Kingdom, where he obtained a degree in civil engineering from the University of Liverpool in 1968, a master’s degree in water sciences, and later a doctorate from the University of Manchester in 1976.
