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Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

Died in 1964

Badr Shakir al-Sayyab was born in December 1926 in Jaykour, a village near Basra, and lost his mother at the age of six. A graduate in 1948 of the teachers' training college in Baghdad, he was dismissed from teaching for his communist commitment and was imprisoned. After the uprising of 1952, he went to Iran, then to Kuwait, returned in 1954 and broke with the party. He then worked in the import and export administration, then for the ports service of Basra. He died in Kuwait on 24 December 1964.

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