A Shia-Shia Conflict in Iraq

It is going to be very difficult for the Iraqi regime to amend its relation with the Iraqi people in general, and with the Iraqi Shia in particular. After the blood has been spilled in the streets of…

Hanin Ghaddar

“Kurdistan’s Hiroshima”

It has been 31 years since that bloody Friday which oversaw the diabolical massacre of Kurds living Halabja, one of the cities of Iraqi Kurdistan. Also known as “Kurdistan’s Hiroshima”, the…

Fayrouz Ramadan Zada

How Saudi Arabia Is Stepping Up in Iraq

by Firas Maksad, Kenneth M. Pollack Some of the best news to come from the Middle East in a long time is the recent and long-overdue improvement in relations between Iraq and Saudi Arabia. It…

Majalla

Baghdad — A City in Verse

by Joseph Braude* Iraq’s 1,251-year-old capital was built by a Muslim empire that held the torch of civilization in the eighth and ninth centuries of the Common Era. In the thirteenth century…

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