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forces, who charged him with being a political dissident. He was released from jail in
October, although the charges were not dropped until several years later. Owing to mounting international pressure, he was eventually allowed to leave the country, and went to the United States. He took a position
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In 1949, Abdullah returned to Iraq and joined the faculty of The Higher Normal
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to become an educator and researcher. After several years as the
President of the University of Baghdad, Abdullah left Iraq amid a period of social unrest, and lived in the United States for the remainder of his life.
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Haitham Abdullah (born 1947), were the first Mandaeans born in the United States. Sinan Abdullah is a dentist in
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Internal
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