Ghazi al-Yawar
| Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawar غازي مشعل عجيل الياور |
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President of Iraq Interim |
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In office 28 June 2004 – 7 April 2005 |
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| Prime Minister | Ayad Allawi |
| Preceded by | Paul Bremer (Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority) |
| Succeeded by | Jalal Talabani (President) |
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Vice President of Iraq Shared office with Adil Abdul-Mahdi |
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In office 7 April 2005 – 22 April 2006 |
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| President | Jalal Talabani |
| Preceded by | Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Rowsch Shaways |
| Succeeded by | Adil Abdul-Mahdi and Tariq al-Hashimi |
| President of the Governing Council of Iraq | |
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In office 17 May 2004 – 1 June 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Ezzedine Salim |
| Succeeded by | Ayad Allawi (Prime Minister) |
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11 March 1958 Mosul, Iraq |
| Political party | Independent |
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King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals American University George Washington University |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawar (Arabic: غازي مشعل عجيل الياور, born 1958) is an Iraqi politician. He was the Vice President under the Iraqi Transitional Government from 2005 to 2006, and was President of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government from 2004 to 2005. He also served as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq in 2004.
Al-Yawar was originally a member of the Iraqi Governing Council created following the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. In 2004 he was appointed by the council to serve as interim President of Iraq following the 28 June return of Iraqi sovereignty from the Coalition Provisional Authority.
Born in Mosul, Iraq in 1958, al-Yawar completed his primary and secondary education in Iraq. He then went on to study in King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) for two years before completing his BSc in civil engineering in the UK. Al-Yawar enrolled in an English language program at American University in Washington, D.C. and then received his master's degree from George Washington University in the mid 1980s.
The House of Yawar has been the head of the Shammar tribe for centuries. The Shammar is one of Iraq's biggest tribal confederations with more than 1.5 million people covering vast territories from Iraq into Syria and Saudi Arabia. Composed of both Sunnis and Shiites, the Shammar are generally religiously and politically moderate. "My mother would take me to visit the holy shrines in Najaf and Karbala, in addition to the Sunni mosques in Baghdad and St. Mary's Church," Yawar told the Iraqi paper Al Zaman.
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