Raed Jarrar (Arabic: رائد جرار) is an Iraqi architect, blogger, and activist resident in the United States. He is currently the Iraq consultant for the American Friends Service Committee.
Jarrar was raised in Baghdad, and is half Iraqi and half Palestinian. He holds a degree in architecture from the University of Jordan. While attending university he met the fellow architecture student later known as Salam Pax.
Jarrar first gained prominence as the person referenced in the title of the blog "Where is Raed?", written and maintained by Salam Pax, to which Jarrar himself made infrequent posts. This blog received widespread media coverage during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and afterwards.
Jarrar also founded Emaar, an NGO that carried out humanitarian work in southern Iraq.
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