Peter Yousef Johnny Sha’ia was a politician and author from Baghdad, Iraq. He pursued his higher education in Politics, Philosophy and Political Economy in Bulgaria. He was appointed editor of The Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party‘s newspaper Al-Thawra (The Revolution) and later went on to work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an ambassador to a number of the European countries. Many of his articles were published in both newspapers and magazines, though he is best known for his book entitled Latin America – Continent of Famine and Revolution, which he published in 1973.