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REVIEW: Reading a painful guide to Iraqi decay
May 28, 2014
I highly recommend to anyone interested in this painful modern Arab state’s narrative a new book by a talented young Iraqi lawyer and constitutional expert, Zaid al-Ali, entitled “The Struggle For Iraq’s Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectari …
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REVIEW: The Struggle for Iraq’s Future
May 28, 2014
There are few examples of a modern nation-state so rapidly deteriorating into the abject condition of today’s Iraq. Many may argue that it was inevitable that this Mesopotamian Eden would collapse once it was free of Baathist authoritarianism. Others m …
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Uncertainty as Iraq election results revealed
May 26, 2014
On May 23, Kurdistan’s Ministry of Natural Resources announced it had exported crude oil from Kurdistan to world markets via Turkey, without Baghdad’s consent. Iraq’s oil ministry responded by declaring legal action against Turkey. “If indeed Turkey is …
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Iraq reaches pipeline to fix it after offensive against insurgents
May 23, 2014
(Reuters) Whether the death of Prince Khalid proves the decisive blow to militants and smugglers will soon be determined. Iraq expert Zaid al-Ali, author of “The Struggle for Iraq’s Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined …
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Iraqis Turn Out to Vote in High Numbers Under Tight Security
April 30, 2014
BAGHDAD—Millions of Iraqi voters braved the threat of violence to cast ballots in the country’s first parliamentary elections since U.S. troops withdrew at the end of 2011. The vote on Wednesday was held under extraordinary security that kept violence …
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ARTICLE: Iraq’s House of Cards
April 29, 2014
With the country collapsing around him, Nouri al-Maliki’s strongman image is a sham. And that’s exactly why he’s so dangerous. There is something truly paradoxical about Iraq’s April 30 parliamentary elections. Although there is near unanimity among ob …
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INTERVIEW: Iraq elections explained
April 29, 2014
Iraqi analyst Zaid al-Ali explains the political and security context within which residents will cast their votes. “Given how volatile the situation has become, the government has implemented a number of measures to try to control violence on election …
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RADIO INTERVIEW: The Iraq We Left Behind, Is It a Democracy?
April 28, 2014
As Iraq heads into parliamentary elections on Wednesday, the country is slipping back into civil war. Dozens of people have died at a campaign rally and polling sites. Fighting in Anbar province has destroyed villages and turned tens of thousands of Ir …
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ARTICLE: Iraq’s next parliamentary elections: the stakes
April 17, 2014
Violence in Iraq has surged in recent months to levels not seen for years. Al-Qaida is resurgent, explosions continue to rip through civilian neighbourhoods and foreign backed militias are engaged in combat in broad daylight, sometimes alongside govern …
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Iraq elections overshadowed by claims of corruption
April 14, 2014
“For 11 years now [since the 2003 US-led invasion] the existing political parties have dug their roots deeply into the state,” said Zaid al-Ali, a former UN adviser in Baghdad and the author of The Struggle for Iraq’s Future, a book published this year …
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