Husain al-Rahhal

Husain al-Rahhal (1900-1971) was an Iraqi translator, journalist and Communist activist, who helped found the Iraqi Communist Party

Al-Rahhal came from a family of officials and merchants. He is known as the first "marxist" student of Iraq. He travelled to Berlin in 1919 and India in 1921. He studied at the Baghdad School of Law, forming the first Marxist study circle in Iraq in 1924. The group published a newspaper, As-Sahifah, edited by Al-Rahhal.