Habib Muhammad Karim Abdulrahman was born in 1931 in the city of Kut in southern Iraq and is from the Malekshai Faili tribe. He was raised in an educated and merchant Kurdish Faili family in the city of Baghdad. In 1950, he was accepted into the College of Law in the city of Baghdad, and in 1952, due to political activity, he was deprived of education by the Iraqi authorities and expelled from the college.
In 1953, he published articles in the Arabic-language magazine (Sada al-Mustaqbal), and in 1958 he was appointed as a broadcaster at Radio Baghdad, where he worked until the end of Year 1962.
In 1975, by an order of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council, he was appointed as the Director of Municipalities of Dhi Qar Governorate in southern Iraq. In the years 1977, 1990, and 1991, he was detained several times by the Ba'ath regime. On February 6, 1978, by an order of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council, he was appointed as Inspector General at the General Income Tax Directorate in the city of Baghdad, and in Year 1987, he was retired at his own request.
In the middle of 1998, he moved to the United Kingdom as a refugee. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, and English. On July 30, 2013, he passed away in a hospital in the city of Beirut, and later his body was transferred to the Najaf cemetery in central Iraq and buried there.
Struggle RecordHabib Muhammad Karim joined the ranks of the Party in 1952 and in 1953 became a member of the Baghdad District Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq, and in the same year he was a representative of the Third Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Kirkuk, and in 1954 he was made head of the Baghdad District Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party- Iraq.
In the 1956 conference, he became a member of the Central Committee of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the same year, he was the representative of the Kurdistan Students Union in the Student Front (Al-Jabha al-Tullabiya) in the city of Baghdad, which included most of the opposition organizations to the Iraqi authority and consisted of: the United Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Iraqi Communist Party, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and the National Congress Party, for the purpose of coordination to organize student demonstrations and strikes.
In 1959, he was a member of the editorial board of Khabat newspaper, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq in the city of Baghdad, and in the same year and at the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party 1959 he was elected as a member of the Oversight and Inspection Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq. On January 8, 1960, he was a member of the fifty-person group supporting the establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the phase of open work, and in the same year, directly at the Fifth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party 1960 he was re-elected as a member of the Oversight and Inspection Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
In Year 1964, as head of the High Oversight and Inspection Committee, he did not participate in the broad meeting in Mawat and did not consider it legitimate. In the same year, as the primary head of the High Oversight and Inspection Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and to resolve internal problems, he proposed holding a Congress to the President and the Political Bureau, and both sides agreed.
At the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party 1964، Seventh Congress 1966 and Eighth Congress 1970 of the Party, he was elected as a member and secretary of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
On January 18, 1967, he led a delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and met with Lieutenant General Abdul Rahman Muhammad Arif at the Republican Palace in the city of Baghdad for the purpose of discussing the implementation of the articles of the June 1966 agreement for the autonomy of Kurdistan by the Iraqi government.
In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he headed to the country of Iran and later headed to the city of Cairo and contacted the Iraqi government, and in the same year, after surrendering, he returned to Iraq.
In the middle of 1991, he rejoined the ranks of the Party and worked in the media of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , in 1993 and at the Eleventh Congress he was elected as a member of the Central Inspection and Oversight Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, United.
He was a representative to the congresses of the Twelfth 1999 and Thirteenth Congress 2010 of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Erbil.
Among his works:
1- History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (in key stations) 1946 - 1993.
2- About the national heritage of the immortal Barzani - 1991.
3- Pages from the struggle of the Kurdish people, history of the party's conferences 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 - 1991. The Kurdish translation of this work was done by Kozad Rojbayani in the same year and was published.
Sources:1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.
2. History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Congress and Conference (Program and Internal Regulations), Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board, Volume One, (Erbil - Roxana Printing House - 2021).
3. Jalil al-Mandlawi and Sabah al-Surmiri, Professor Habib Muhammad Karim in an interview for Hamrin, Hamrin Newspaper, Faili Kurds Association, Issue 26, Erbil, Salahaddin University Press, November 2001 AD.
4. Habib Muhammad Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (in key stations) 1946 - 1993, (Duhok - Khabat Printing House - 1998 AD).
5. Habib Muhammad Karim, Thoughts on Barzani, Khabat Newspaper, mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - United, Issue 716, Wednesday, March 2, 1994 AD.
6. Muhammad Malla Qadir, Struggle Record, Short History of the Party and the Culture of the Immortal Barzani, Second Edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - 2007 AD).
7. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Volume Three, (Erbil - Ministry of Education Press - 2002 AD).