Event review: an ambassador without a country
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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Iraq
From deadlock to deadline: Iraq’s new government faces pressure to reform
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: Irish prisoner released from jail in Egypt, a double attack in Iraq, and a new arms agreement between Qatar and Britain
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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To address the refugee crisis, focus on dignity
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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Tunisia: “Unemployment has killed me”
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 may be losing on the battlefield. But it’s winning elsewhere.
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: Saudi ComicCon sparks uproar
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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