Career
Abdel Hamid was born in 1937 in Kirkuk and is of Kurdish background. He studied Islamic Law in Cairo and returned to Iraq in 1986 to work as a professor at Baghdad University. Abdel Hamid has written over 30 books on interpretation of the Qur"an.
He was arrested in 1996 by the government of Saddam Hussein but opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
On May 30, 2005, Abdel Hamid was mistakenly arrested by United States. troops.
