Guests from previous years have included, between others, Nicolas Sarkozy, Dmitri Medvedev, Hu Jintao, Jalal Talabani, Hamid Karzai, Vladimir Poutine, Mikheil Saakashvili, Abdoulaye Wade, Vaclav Klaus, Pervez Musharraf, Abdullah Gül, Boris Tadic, Viktor Yanukovych, Paul Kagamé, Herman Van Rompuy, José Manuel Barroso, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, etc.
President Jalal Talabani called her death a "big loss to Iraqi art and culture".
Jalal-Abad | Jalal Talabani | Jalal Merhi | Jalal-Abad Province | Massouda Jalal | Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu | Sayed Jalal Karim | Oyalma, Jalal-Abad | Mir Jalal Khan | Ayesha Jalal |
Dr Rashid is a Kurd, born in 1944 in Sulaymaniyah, and is an active member of the PUK under the leadership of Mr Jalal Talabani.