Mofeed Mohammed Jawad al-Jazaeri

Mufid Mohammad Jawad al-Jazairi (b. 1939) is the current Iraqi Minister of Culture, part of the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003. A Shia Muslim and member of the Iraqi Communist Party, al-Jazairi was a journalist by profession. He worked for the Arabic desk at Czechoslovak Radio in the 1960s and 1970s and married Czech radio journalist Pavla Jazairiová. He returned to Iraq in the 1980s and became a member of the Kurdish opposition. His son Martin Jazairi is a reporter of the Czech Television in Russia.