@alhammudi: Saddam Hussein Al-Majid Al-Tikriti was born on 28 April 1937[a] in al-Awja, a small village near Tikrit, to a Sunni Arab family[8] from the Al-Bejat clan of the Bedouin Al-Bu Nasir tribe.[9][10] His father, Hussein Abd al-Majid, was from the Al-Majid branch of the Al-Bejat clan, while his mother Subha Tulfah al-Mussalat was granddaughter of Mussallat bin Omar Al-Nasiri, a tribal leader of the Al-Bu Nasir tribe and an opponent of the Ottoman rule in Iraq.[1 #صدام_حسين #sadam_hussain #iraq #arab #قريش