Maslawi

A Maslawi is a person who is from the city of Mosul, Iraq.^{[citation needed]}

Maslawi as a term is also used to show the affiliation of any person, object, concept to Mosul city.^{[citation needed]}

The majority of Maslawis are Arabs and Sunni Muslims.^{[citation needed]}

Before the Iraq War, the Christian community of Mosul was the largest of all Iraqi cities except Baghdad, with a small number of members of the Syriac Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Greek Orthodox and Chaldean Catholic and a large community of the Assyrian church of the East. Most Assyrians/Chaldeans live in the villages near Mosul or other Northern areas (see list of Assyrian villages), whereas most of the Arab Christians live in the center of Mosul.^{[citation needed]}

There was a Jewish community in Mosul until the 1950s, when almost all of the Jewish quarter of Mosul emigrated to either Israel or the U.S.^{[citation needed]}

Famous Maslawis

Kazem al-Saher, music artist
Hawar Mulla Mohammed, football player
Salih Jaber, football player
Tariq Aziz, Deputy Prime Minister 1979-2003 (from Tel Keppe)
Jamil al-Midfai, Prime Minister
Ghazi Yawar, President 2004-2005

References

Harry Luke, Mosul and its minorities (2004) ISBN 159333107X
Suleiman Saigh, History of the Iraqi city of Mosul (2008) ISBN 1593335237