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Nadhim Zahawi

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1. “For its book, The Cradle of Civilization, for as you say, for culture, books, not just in Baghdad, but in the Kurdish areas, in Slelemania and Bill and elsewhere. And then you have a series of brutal revolutions that end up with the Ba'ath party taking control. Saddam was a thuggish character. And by the time he came to power, they had pretty much effectively destroyed any other political movement, whether it's the sort of the socialists or the monarchists, pretty much gone. And I was sort of probably too young to understand the full implications of what was about to happen. But luckily had a father who absolutely got it at one of the few Iraqis in those days that absolutely got it. He happened to be Kurdish, married to my mother, who was actually from originally from Basra. And he was simply trying to sort of keep his head down, be a businessman.”

   2024-06-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 79. Nadhim Zahawi: Iraq, Conservatism, and why he backed Boris Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “I'm sorry, the bit that was missing in my knowledge my grandfather passed away at the age of 52. We have a history of hypertension in the family and high blood pressure. So before I was born, but obviously I lived the stories of that time in Iraq when actually things were moving in the right direction rather than the wrong direction.”

   2024-06-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 79. Nadhim Zahawi: Iraq, Conservatism, and why he backed Boris Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “So I was 10 years old when I sort of began to understand what was happening politically. Sudan was then deputy to Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, who was then the sort of the new Bathist president.”

   2024-06-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 79. Nadhim Zahawi: Iraq, Conservatism, and why he backed Boris Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source