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KRG Independence Rally, Creative Commons

Event review: an ambassador without a country

01.22.19

Kurdistan Regional Government Rep. Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman discusses Kurdish politics since the KRG’s 2017 independence referendum and the Erbil-Baghdad relationship at Harvard Law School.

International Relations and Security

Iraq’s Kurds should play their Trump card

01.29.17

Iraqi Kurds’ desire for an independent state may finally meet with US support now that Donald Trump is president.

Human Rights

Kurdistan: A New Player in the Middle East?

11.13.15

The Fletcher School’s Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies had the pleasure of hosting Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Representative to the United States, this past week. Her father, Sami Abdul Rahman, was a former deputy prime minister of the KRG and a leader in the Kurdish struggle against Saddam Hussein. Ms. […]

International Relations and Security

The Line in the Sand: Is Sykes-Picot Coming Undone?

07.13.15

As civil strife and conflict have curtailed the reach of Baghdad and Damascus, a popular notion has emerged suggesting that the artificial colonial-era boundaries of Iraq and Syria are collapsing. The popular and mistaken refrain is that the Sykes-Picot Agreement is unravelling. This has engendered a number of misguided suggestions that the borders of the […]

International Relations and Security

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