Qays Abd al-Hussein al-Yasiri

Qays Abd al-Hussein al-Yasiri (; 1941 – 26 May 2019) was an Iraqi media historian, academic and poet, best known for his studies on early Iraqi mass media. He graduated from the universities of Baghdad in 1972, Cairo in 1976 and Warsaw in 1986. In his professional career, he moved between several jobs, as he worked as journalist, media official and assistant professor. His only poetry collection published in 1970. He left several books about media and wrote various essays. Al-Yasiri died at the age of 78 in Baghdad.

Biography Qais Abd al-Hussein Aziz Al-Yasiri was born in 1941 in the village of Al-Khayrat, Al-Hindiya, Karbala Governorate, where he grew up and studied. Then he went to Baghdad and obtained a Bachelor of Journalism from the College of Arts at Baghdad University in 1972, and a Master of Mass Communication from the Faculty of Mass Communication at Cairo University in 1976, and a Ph.D. in Journalism from Warsaw University, 1986. worked as head of the journalism department at Ahl al-Bayt University in Karbala.

Al-Yasiri died on 26 May 2019 in Baghdad.

Works , 1978 , poetry collection, 1970 , 1981 , 1987 , 1991 , 1993