Thabit AbdulNour

Thabit Abdulaziz AbdulNour (Arabic: ثابت عبدالعزيز عبدالنور, 1890 - 1957) was an Iraqi politician, a government administrator, and a diplomat.

He served as the first director of oil in the Iraqi government, and as a diplomat in London, Great Britain, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Sanaa, Yemen.

[2] In 1922, he and others founded the Scientific Institute in Baghdad that tackled the issue of illiteracy in the newly established Kingdom of Iraq by opening classes to educate the population.

[1] In 1923, AbdulNour was a partner in a big agricutlture project to caltivate cotton on a large scale in Iraq in two areas but appearantly the project failed due to the technical difficulties of introducing new crops on such a large scale and due to the hugh amount of irrigation water required which was not available at that time.

[9] When World War II began in 1939, AbdulNour was on a visit to Germany and refused to return to Iraq, so his government service was terminated.

[1] During his stay in Germany, he worked in an Arabic language radio station that was broadcasting propaganda against the British during World War II.