Office: | Regional Secretary of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch |
Term Start: | 2 February 1960 |
Term End: | May 1962 |
Predecessor: | Fuad al-Rikabi |
Successor: | Ali Salih al-Sadi |
1Blankname: | National Secretary |
1Namedata: | Michel Aflaq |
Office1: | Member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Term Start1: | 1 September 1959 |
Term End1: | May 1962 |
Office2: | Member of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch |
Term Start2: | 11 November 1963 |
Term End2: | February 1964 |
Term Start3: | 1957 |
Term End3: | 25 September 1963 |
Talib El-Shibib | |
Birth Date: | 22 March 1934 |
Death Date: | 12 October 1997 |
Death Place: | London, United Kingdom |
Party: | Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Talib El-Shibib (22 March 1934 – 12 October 1997) was an Iraqi politician. Born in Babylon Province, he studied engineering at Imperial College in London.
El-Shibib was elected to the leadership of Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and was one of a triumvirate who planned the later coup against President Abdul Karim Qassim. He became foreign minister under the new regime in 1963.
Internal disagreements led him to go in exile. After the second coup in 1968, El-Shibib was given several ambassadorial posts. In 1976 he resigned from the post as Iraqi ambassador to Germany and went into exile again when disagreements arose between him and Saddam Hussein’s policies. He devoted the remainder of his life in exile while campaigning against Saddam and for a democratic Iraq.