Professor Basimah Yusuf Butrus () (or Basmah Yousif Putros; born 1963 in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan) is an Iraqi Assyrian politician who was Minister of Science and Technology in the Iraqi Transitional Government from May 2005 until May 2006. She was then the only Christian Minister in Iraq. She graduated from Salahaddin University-Erbil, earning master's degree in biochemistry. Religiously, Basmah belongs to the Chaldean Catholic Church and politically is part of the Assyrian Democratic Movement. She is a human rights activist in Iraqi Kurdistan and is a member of the Catholic humanitarian organization named Caritas.

Basimah was elected into the Iraq parliament on March 8, 2010. She was the only Christian woman in the parliament.

Basimah Yusuf Butrus

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1963 births

Living people

Chaldean Catholics

Iraqi Eastern Catholics

People from Erbil

Assyrian Democratic Movement politicians

Members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq

Government ministers of Iraq

21st-century Iraqi women politicians

21st-century Iraqi politicians

Salahaddin University-Erbil alumni

Women government ministers of Iraq

Basimah Yusuf Butrus