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About Rashid al-Rifai
- Rashid Muhammad-Said al-Rifai, (Arabic: ???? ????-???? ????????) (1 May 1929 – 3 September 2009 in Amman), 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 Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
- They have four children.
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