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'''Feisal Amin al-Istrabadi''' ({{lang-ar|فيصل امين الاسترابادي}}; born 1962) is an Iraqi lawyer and former diplomat who represented Iraq at the United Nations as ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative from 2004 to 2007. In 2004, he was one of the main drafters of Iraq's [[Transitional Administrative Law]] (TAL).
He is also the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East at [[Indiana University
==Background and early life==
Al-Istrabadi was born in [[Virginia]], in the
Feisal's grandfather, al-Hajj Mahmoud al-Istrabadi, had been one of the drafters of Iraq's first constitution in 1925.<ref>{{cite news|last=Simon|first=Scott|title=Where Does Iraq Go From Here?|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100103224|access-date=16 July 2010|newspaper=National Public Radio|date=January 31, 2009}}</ref> His aunt, Lam'an Amin Zaki, had been in the delegation of women that went to [[Istanbul]] to seek the hand of the future wife of King [[Feisal II]], who was later killed in the coup. During the coup, in July 1958, Feisal's grandmother Bibiya al-Istrabadi tried to smuggle Prime Minister [[Nuri al-Said]] to safety. She was killed in the attempt, along with al-Said, when they were discovered leaving Baghdad.
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== Career ==
Al-Istrabadi received a doctorate in law in 1988 from
Persuaded of the urgent need to remove [[Saddam Hussein]], both for his crimes of mass-murder and in order for sanctions to be lifted, Al-Istrabadi was a keen supporter of the military action to remove the Baathist regime in 2003. He was involved intimately with the drafting of the Future of Iraq Plan, a project sponsored by the [[United States
=== Return to Iraq and government service ===
Al-Istrabadi returned to Iraq in 2003 as the legal advisor to [[Adnan Pachachi]], Iraq's oldest and most experienced politician, who was later offered the Presidency but refused. As al-Pachachi's representative in the drafting committee of the [[Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period|Transitional Administrative Law]] (TAL), al-Istrabadi was one of the main Iraqi authors of the document, and was the primary author of the bill of rights.<ref name="indiana.edu">{{cite web|url=http://info.law.indiana.edu/faculty-research/faculty-staff/profiles/faculty/istrabadi-feisal-amin-rasoul.shtml|title=News and Media : Faculty & Research : Faculty Directory : Feisal Amin Rasoul Istrabadi : Indiana University Maurer School of Law: Bloomington|work=indiana.edu}}</ref>
Prior to his diplomatic appointment, Ambassador Istrabadi served as legal advisor to the Iraqi Minister for Foreign Affairs during the negotiations for U.N. Security Council resolution 1546 of 8 June 2004, which recognized the reassertion by Iraq of its sovereignty. In 2004, Al-Istrabadi was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Deputy Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations.<ref name="indiana.edu"/>
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He earned an [[Doctor of Juridical Science|SJD]] degree from [[Northwestern University]] in 2009.
He is also an Associate Director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy at the Law School.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ccd.indiana.edu/who/staff|title=Center for Constitutional Democracy: Staff|work=indiana.edu|access-date=2015-07-30|archive-date=2015-12-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222144315/http://ccd.indiana.edu/who/staff|url-status=dead}}</ref> In July 2010, Istrabadi became the founding director of Indiana University's Center for the Study of the Middle East.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://csme.indiana.edu/about/staff/al-istrabadi-feisal-amin-rasoul.html|title=Center for the Study of the Middle East|work=indiana.edu}}</ref> He is a member of the [[Crimes Against Humanity Initiative]] Advisory Council, a project of the [[Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute]] at [[
== Publications ==
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