Marriage: married
Children: four daughters and a son
Education: Usul al-Din College, BA, Islamic Studies, 1973; Salahaddin University, MA, Arabic Literature, 1992
Religion: Shia Muslim
other facts
Prono: NOO-ree al-MAA-lick-ee
He changed his name to Jawad al-Maliki while in exile.
Timeline
1968 – He joined the Dawa Party.
2003 – He returned from Syria to Iraq.
2003-2004 – Member of the Baathist Emancipation Commission, which works to save ex-Baathists from the Iraqi army and government.
January 2005 – He is elected to the new parliament as a member of the Dawa Party and serves as chairman of the National Assembly Security and Defense Committee.
April 22, 2006 – He was chosen by the Shiite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance to replace Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. He has one month to form the government.
May 20, 2006 – In Iraq, 37 cabinet members and the new government with Maliki as prime minister were sworn in.
July 26, 2006 – He is addressing the joint meeting of the US Congress on the war in Iraq.
October 27, 2006 – He met with US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and told him that he “sees himself as a friend of the US”. [he’s] Not America’s man in Iraq.”
January 2, 2007 – In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he said, “I wish I could finish this job even before his term ends.. I didn’t want to take this position… it’s in the national interest and I won’t accept it again.”
February 2009 – Maliki’s State of Law coalition won a majority in 9 of the 14 provinces leading to the election.
June 10, 2012 – Maliki survived the parliamentary threat of a no-confidence vote, which President Talabani declared lacked sufficient support for the vote. Maliki’s opponents accuse him of monopolizing power.
21 June 2012 – The head of parliament, Osama al-Nujaifi, announced that Maliki would be asked to appear before parliament in an ongoing effort to overthrow him.
January 4, 2014 – Maliki pledged to crush the uprising in Anbar province, where Sunni insurgency – al-Qaeda in Iraq – flourished after the US-led invasion in 2003. “There will be no retreat,” Maliki said in a speech by Al-Arabiya.
April 30, 2014 – Maliki’s party won 92 seats, below the 165 required for a majority in the parliamentary elections.
11 August 2014 – President Fuad Masum appointed Haider al-Abadi as Iraqi prime minister, replacing an opposition Maliki with a member of his own party, despite Maliki’s announcement earlier in the day that he plans to stay in office for a third term. Abadi is the Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament and a former deputy of Maliki.
