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Event Review 

Event review: an ambassador without a country

January 22, 2019February 27, 2019 0 Comments Baghdad, Barzani, Erbil, Iraq, KRG, Kurdish Referendum, Kurdistan Regional Government

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.

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Analysis Op-Ed 

From deadlock to deadline: Iraq’s new government faces pressure to reform

October 25, 2018January 22, 2019 0 Comments Baghdad, Economic Reform, Elections, Iraq, protest, unemployment

Newly minted President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi have one year to enact reform on pressing domestic issues, especially utility services and unemployment. If the government fails to implement changes, it may face another series of popular uprisings.

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Weekly Roundup 

Weekly Roundup: Irish prisoner released from jail in Egypt, a double attack in Iraq, and a new arms agreement between Qatar and Britain

September 19, 2017November 7, 2017 0 Comments Egypt, Iraq, Weekly Roundup

A double attack at a restaurant and checkpoint in Iraq killed more than 80 people, Irishman Ibrahim Halawa was released from jail in Egypt, and Qatar signed an arms agreement with the UK.

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Asylum seekers in Greece
Op-Ed 

To address the refugee crisis, focus on dignity

June 22, 2017December 15, 2019 0 Comments Afghanistan, Europe, Greece, Iraq, Lesvos, migrants, Mohamad Saleh, Refugees, Syria, Turkey

Millions of people in the Middle East and elsewhere were forced to flee their homes in recent years. What they need most now is dignity.

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Analysis 

Tunisia: “Unemployment has killed me”

May 15, 2017November 7, 2017 0 Comments Arab Spring, Caid Essebsi, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Joseph Desire Som I, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, unemployment, violent extremism

Youth unemployment is a major driver of radicalization in Tunisia, which supplies more fighters to Syria and Iraq than any other country.

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ISIL graffiti
Op-Ed 

ISIL may be losing on the battlefield. But it’s winning elsewhere.

April 4, 2017November 7, 2017 0 Comments Assad, Donald Trump, grayzone, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Mosul, Syria

The terrorist group aims to shrink the “grayzone”: the plane of coexistence between Muslims in the West and their non-Muslim countrymen.

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Podcast 

Podcast: Saudi ComicCon sparks uproar

March 22, 2017March 23, 2017 0 Comments BDS, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia

We discuss an Israeli bill banning BDS supporters from the country, Saudi’s first comic convention, and the legacy of the Iran-Iraq War.

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