In 1938, King Farouk I of Egypt, then aged 18, summoned the officer-in-charge of Egypt’s military museum, Mohammad Naguib, 38, for a presentation of…

Despite the cruelty and deprivation experienced by many Iraqis during the reign of Saddam Hussein, some look back at that period with a sense of…

I got the idea for this essay from an article by Czech writer Milan Kundera who, as he wrote in Le Monde, was "almost exiled" to France in 1975…

As the world marks the 20-year anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, there can be no doubting the enormous significance that event had in…

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“It is what it is... If Hassan hadn’t killed her, I would have.”Those are the chilling words of the brother of Zainab Zaiter, the latest victim of…

Twenty years have now passed since Saddam Hussein’s regime collapsed in Iraq, ending his 33-year rule of the country. As a political scientist, I…

Iraq has reached a pivotal moment in its history, two decades after the US-led international coalition invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime…

Baghdad: “It’s a country of thieves,” one member of the security forces commented in disgust. “Ali Babas, one and all. But there is peace here now…