Fuad Masum

Muhammad Fuad Masum (Arabic: معصوم‎ Muḥammad Fūād Ma‘ṣūm; Kurdish: فوئاد مەعسووم, born 1938) is the seventh and current President of Iraq. He is a veteran Kurdish politician and was elected to the post following the 2014 parliamentary election. Masum is the second non-Arab president of Iraq, succeding Jalal Talabani, also from Kurdish ancestry.
== Early life and education ==
Fuad Masum was born in the city of Koya. His family descends from the village of Khabanen, which is part of Hawraman. He studied at various religious schools in Kurdistan until the age of 18. He studied law and Sharia at Baghdad University. In 1958, Masum traveled to Cairo to complete his higher education at Al-Azhar University. He worked as a professor in Basrah University in 1968. He earned his PhD in Islamic philosophy from Al-Azhar in 1975.