Sadoun al-Zubaydi

Sadoun al-Zubaydi (center) present at Saddam Hussein's July 25, 1990 meeting with April Glaspie, then-U.S. ambassador to Iraq

Sadoun al-Zubaydi is a British-educated former English literature professor at the University of Baghdad, best known for his role as the official English language translator to former President Saddam Hussein of Iraq. A secularist, al-Zubaydi has refused to identify himself as Sunni or a Shi’ite.

Translator Al-Zubaydi was a frequent fixture beside Saddam Hussein on television screens across the world and was present at several high-level meetings between Saddam and foreign dignitaries during the Iran–Iraq War, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the 1991 Gulf War and the months preceding the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. A low-ranking Iraqi Ba'ath Party member,

Zubaydi was interviewed by TRT World from Amman, Jordan in 2016 discussing the protests at the time.