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Al Rubaie received international acclaim for his achievements in isolating Al Qai ' ida from the Sunni mainstream and bringing the Sunni community to the negotiating table with the Shia-led Government as well as his protection of Iraq's vulnerable Christian minority and was awarded the " The Annual Prize For Peace Making In The Middle East " at the House of Lords on 18 February 2009 presented by Lord Hylton of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East.
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A Shia Muslim and neurologist by training, al-Rabai ' i was born in Kadhimiya in 1947 to a Shia father and a Sunni mother, Al Rubaie graduated top of his class at the Baghdad School of Medicine in 1977 and gained his MRCP ( Membership of the Royal College of Physicians ) whilst at King's College Medical School in London in 1979.
In his student years, Al Rubaie was a protégé of the leading intellectual Shia theologian of his time, Grand Ayatollah Syed Mohammad Baqir Al Sadr, the founder of the Islamic Da ' awa party, which served as the main opposition to Saddam Hussain's repressive Ba ' ath regime.
Al Rubaie was a pivotal figure in the movement from its very beginning which brought him into direct conflict with Saddam's regime for which he was tortured on three separate occasions and sentenced to death in absentia the day after leaving Iraq to complete his medical studies in the UK.
While he was in exile in London from 1979 until 2003, Al Rubaie embarked on a successful career in both the UK public and private sectors.
From 1979 until 1991, Al Rubaie was the head of Da ' awa party's international section and, using his home as his base, was prolific in organising opposition conferences, publications highlighting Saddam's atrocities and fund raising events in order to assist Saddam's countless victims.
Following the Gulf War of 1991 and the founding of the Iraqi National Congress ( INC ) Al Rubaie sought to bring the Da ' awa Party into the mainstream of Iraqi opposition with the shared goal of toppling Saddam.
This policy however brought him into conflict with the Da ' awa hardliners in Tehran and for this reason Al Rubaie resigned from the Da ' awa Party in 1991 to become a leading independent opposition figure.
Al Rubaie was a major contributor to the widely acclaimed document, " The Declaration of the Shia of Iraq ", July 2002 ( http :// www. al-bab. com ) which called for the protection of the civil rights of the Shia of Iraq.
Active in shaping Iraq's post war political landscape right at the outset from the Nassariyeh Conference of 15 April 2003, Al Rubaie was appointed a member of the Iraqi Governing Council in July 2003 and served until its dissolution one year later.
Al Rubaie was instrumental in forging and executing Government policy by using the National Security Council as the mechanism to influence and direct the various Iraqi ministries.
By all accounts, no single person in the formative years of Iraq's nascent democracy had as much impact as Al Rubaie did in legitimising the new political reality of Iraq in the eyes of the dismissive Arab media and regimes whose natural instinct was to reject the new political order out of fear of the unfamiliar.
Indeed, Saudia Arabia rejected overtures from both Ibrahim al-Jaafari in 2006 and his successor in 2008 in preference for dealing with Al Rubaie.
Al Rubaie was the candidate of choice in Iraq's negotiations with the rest of the Arab League, Iran and Nato.
Al Rubaie was the interceder between the Iraqi and US sides in the handover of Saddam Hussain to the Iraqi authorities for execution.
Al Rubaie showed Saddam mercy prior to his execution by requesting the guards loosen his handcuffs and personally received Saddam's last wishes before his dispatch to the gallows.
In May, 2007, Al Rubaie made an official trip to Washington, D. C., to lobby leading Democratic critics of the war against withdrawing troops, primarily Senator Carl Levin and Representative John P. Murtha.
Al Rubaie argued that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was making progress in stabilising Iraq, and that the United States should be patient as Iraqis make steady progress.
Al Rubaie played a decisive role in diffusing the slide into civil war in the critical period between 2005 and 2008 as he headed the national reconciliation programme to reconcile Iraq's warring Sunni and Shi ' ite communities.
The award was made in order to recognize from the British side Dr Mowaffak Al Rubaie ’ s " immeasurable contribution towards the peace and reconciliation process in Iraq " ( http :// www. frrme. org / index. php? option = com_content & task = view & id = 124 ).
Al Rubaie was the main architect of the U. S .– Iraq Status of Forces Agreement of 2008 which set the timeline for the US withdrawal from Iraq and the rules of engagement for both sides.
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