Qubad Talabani
Qubad Talabani is the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) representative in the United States.He is the second son of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
Early life
Qubad grew up in Surrey, United Kingdom with his maternal grandparents, Ibrahim Ahmed, a novelist, poet and a founder of the modern intellectual Kurdish movement and Galawejh Ahmed.After graduating from High School,He obtaining his bachelors degree in Automotive Systems Engineering at Kingston University in Surrey.
Throughout the mid-nineties, Qubad worked on and off as a car-mechanic for a dealership that specialized in Lancia, Suzuki and Maserati vehicles.
Representative to the KRG
He moved to Washington, D.C. and started working as an official of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan together with Barham Salih. In 2003, Qubad returned to Iraq for one year and served as the PUK's point man to the coalition forces and the Coalition Provisional Authority. He also acted as a liaison officer between the PUK and U.S. military forces in Iraq.. Qubad was also one of the key PUK negotiators in the drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law, Iraq's first post Saddam Constitution.
In April 2004, Qubad returned to the US, and was stationed as the Representative of the PUK and the Kurdistan Regional Government bu his father in a deal with Massoud Barzani that appointed Barzani's son as the head of security services and intelligence of Arbil and Dahuk,and granted another son of Talabani,Pavail as the head of security services and intelligence of Sulaymaniyah,the city that used to be Talabani's party's strong hold before it's crashing defeat at 25/7/2009.
In 2006, with the alleged unification of the two administrations in Kurdistan and following the forming of the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan and the establishment of the Kurdish National Assembly.Qubad was subsequently appointed as the first representative of the unified Kurdistan Regional Government, a position he holds until today.His appontment was takenplace as anagreement between PUK and KDP,as Qubad was appointed as the representative to the US,Barzani's son was appointed as the head of the anti-terror units of Kurdistan.Thus a major dictatorial power struggle between son's of the rulers of Kurdistan region is feared,as there are allegations that the son of an other major Kurdish politician is demanding to hold a secretary position,as part of a deal to fuse confrontations inside the PUK.
Personal life
Qubad lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Sherri Kraham.
Translation
The phrase "Qubad Talabani" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German.
Translation in Arabic: قباد الطالباني.
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