Rashid al-Rifai

Rashid Muhammad-Said al-Rifai, (

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

Rifai received another scholarship, this time to the University of Bristol in the UK after the 1958 revolution which brought down the Iraqi Monarchy at the time. Once again graduating with honors after four years, he returned again to the National Telephone Company in Baghdad.

Another scholarship came subsequently, this time to

Death

Rashid al-Rifai died on the evening of 3 September 2009 at his home in Amman, Jordan.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

Electrical Engineering

• The Effects of Drift Field and Field Gradient on the Quantum Efficiency of Photocells, Rice University, 1966.

Politics

• Iraq and Japan, Rationale and Horizons, Dept. of International Studies, Baghdad University, 1997
• Arabic Rationale (
  Arabic
  : المنطق العربي), Kodansha, 1992

External links

• Purdue University Wall of Fame, 1964
• THE EFFECTS OF DRIFT FIELD AND FIELD GRADIENT ON THE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY OF PHOTOCELLS
• The Effects of Drift Field and Field Gradient on the Quantum Efficiency of Photocells.
• Japan National Press Club^{[permanent dead link]}
• List of Official Mourners Representing Foreign Countries and International Organizations at the Funeral Ceremony of Emperor Showa
• The Iraqi Invasion: Tokyo Sees No Threat To Its Reserves of Oil
• Statement at the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, Denmark March 10, 1995
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