Sadoun al-Zubaydi

Willy Brandt (left), Sadoun al-Zubaydi (center) and Saddam Houssein (right) in 1990
Sadoun al-Zubaydi (center) present at Saddam Hussein's July 25, 1990 meeting with April Glaspie, then-U.S. ambassador to Iraq

Sadoun al-Zubaydi is a British-educated former English literature professor at the University of Baghdad, best known for his role as the official English language translator to former President Saddam Hussein of Iraq. A secularist, al-Zubaydi has refused to identify himself as Sunni or a Shi’ite.[1]

  1. ^ ""Saddam's Translator Emerges From Obscurity", Web". The Guardian. September 10, 2005.