Khedairy, academic, lecturer and founder and director of the cultural centre "Al Beit Al Iraqi" ("The Iraqi House") Alphonse Mingana, Assyrian theologian, historian, orientalist and former priest best known for collecting and preserving the Mingana Collection of ancient Middle Eastern manuscripts at Birmingham. Hind Rassam Culhane, chair of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Mercy College, New York. Kanan Makiya (born 1949), Iraqi academic. He is the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. Nada Shabout, Professor of Art History, lecturer Avi Shlaim, historian and emeritus professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford Engineers and scientists Isa Kelemechi, (Mongolian: Isa Khelmerchi (Isa the Interpreter); Chinese (Ai-hsüeh) was an Assyrian Nestorian Christian scientist, and official at the Yuan court of Kublai Khan's Mongol Empire in the 13th century. Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi Abdul Athem Alsabti, Mandaean supernova astrophysicist who introduced astronomy teaching into Iraq in 1970; University of Manchester graduate (1970); minor planet 10478 Alsabti named after him; founded Iraqi Astronomical Society; project leader for the Iraqi National Astronomical Observatory. Abdul Jabbar Abdullah, Mandaean wave theory physicist, dynamical meteorologist, and President Emeritus of Baghdad University; MIT graduate (1946); chair of physics at Baghdad University; co-founded Iraqi Physics and Mathematics Society. Ahmed ibn Yusuf, mathematician Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī Al-Karaji Al-Kindi (Alkindus) Al-Samawal al-Maghribi Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, Ara Warkes Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, KBE PC, (born 7 May 1960), is one of the world's leading surgeons at Imperial College London, where he holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery, specialising in the field of minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery, having pioneered many new techniques and technologies. Azzam Alwash, is an Iraqi hydraulic engineer and environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2013, in particular for his efforts on restoring salt marshs in southern Iraq, which had been destroyed during the Saddam Hussein regime. Berossus, Hellenistic-era Babylonian writer, priest of Bel Marduk and astronomer writing in Greek, active at the beginning of the 3rd century BC Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa') Dlawer Ala'Aldeen, Founding President of the Middle East Research Institute (MERI); Former Minister of Higher Education & Scientific Research in Kurdistan Regional Government (2009–2012); Former Professor of Medicine in Nottingham University, UK (1992–2014); human right lobbyist Fakhri A. Bazzaz, plant ecologist Farouk Al-Kasim, a Norwegian-Iraqi petroleum geologist. He played a major role in