#Iraq PM: Iraq Needs a New Kind of Partnership With the United States foreignaffairs.com/iraq/iraq-need… via Foreign Affairs

مقال مهم لكل من يهمه موضوع الاستثمارات الخليجية بالعراق، ويتضمن تعليقات مني ومن محللين اخرين

Gaza is 'both one of the most dangerous and one of the most restrictive spaces we’ve operated in for quite some time.'

The IRC's Ciaran Donnelly on the dangers to humanitarians in Gaza. Vox's @NicoleNarea reports:
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“Rafah, a city of children.”

UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder on the more than 600,000 children trapped in Rafah, with nowhere safe to go.

Children need a humanitarian ceasefire. Now.

Six months on, the Israeli military campaign has brought relentless death & destruction to Gaza.

Lives shattered. Children dying for lack of food & water.

This is incomprehensible & entirely avoidable.

Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.

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MEI Fellow Yuree Noh & co-author Marwa Shalaby use original survey data from Morocco and Tunisia - 2 Arab countries w/progressive gender policies - to examine public perceptions of electoral gender quotas in less democratic settings in Comparative Political Studies
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Check out Reva Dhingra’s article, A Tale of Two Municipalities: The Local Politics of International Assistance During Refugee Crises, published in Studies 50: The Politics of Migration and Refugee Rentierism in the Middle East!
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Photo taken a month before Kadhimi’s second visit to the White House. I don’t remember you having an issue with rewarding bad behaviour back then?

Came across this gem at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SFMOMA today.

Great to have the piece Abdullah Yassen and I wrote about refugee and IDP rentierism in the #Kurdistan Region of #Iraq published. Many thanks to Gerasimos Tsourapas Marc Lynch & the University of Glasgow POMEPS teams.

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College of Fine Arts in Baghdad. All mosaics are designs of the university students.

Afternoon walks on Abu Nu’as corniche

Baghdad, Iraq

Iraqi comedian احمد وحيد - Ahmedwaheed’s brilliant show tackles both political & social issues in Iraq. This skit calls out foreign journalists writing negative stories on Iraq even if outdated, because “people will believe anything negative about Iraq, let us make a profit, son”.

My latest article on Iraq: The state's reduced role in post-2003 Iraq - The replacement of Baathism with a plural constitutional system has given rise to a more assertive society

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'From the onset of the modern state of Iraq, Kurds wanted more than self-governance within a federalist structure, but had to settle for that because of international pressures,' Hamzeh Hadad | حمزة حداد writes in 1001 Iraqi Thoughts. cnas.org/publications/c…

It is inevitable that Baghdad will get caught up in a contest between the KDP and PUK,' Hamzeh Hadad | حمزة حداد writes in 1001 Iraqi Thoughts. Read more: cnas.org/publications/c…

Today we remember one of the darkest days in Kurdish history.

Thousands of Kurdish people were indiscriminately killed in a chemical attack by Saddam Hussein’s tyrannical regime in #Halabja .

75% of the victims were women and children.

Is Iraqi Federalism Under Threat? | By Hamzeh Hadad | حمزة حداد

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If you want to know where the Shia of Iraq stand on this matter. I touch on this in my research paper with Marsin Alshamary مارسين الشمري for International Peacekeeping: “The Collective Neglect of Southern Iraq: Missed Opportunities for Development and Good Governance” tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

There is a lot of talk these days about federal backsliding in Iraq coming from the KDP. At the same time, Halbousi’s appearances on Ramadan programs have many questioning if his next political project is forming a Sunni-Arab/North-Western Iraqi region. Some background reading 👇