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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.

References

1. Satia, Priya (5 March 2008). Spies in Arabia : The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East. Oxford University Press. pp. 208–. ISBN 978-0-19-971598-5.
2. Halim Barakat (1993). The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State. University of California Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-520-91442-1.
3. The Who's Who of Iraq, 1936, p.582.

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