BAGHDAD — Severe drought is affecting agricultural lands across Iraq because of the low levels of river water. Iraqi officials have raised the alarm on the negative impact of the Turkish Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River, which is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2016. Iraqi Minister of Water Resources Hassan al-Janabi and other politicians have been vocal on this matter.
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Download PDF: iraqs-regional-decentralisation-debate-is-heating-up-by-michael-knights As the battle for Mosul looms, however, national fragility may require postponing larger boundary-drawing initiatives. The decentralisation of security, spending and administrative power is regularly cited as a means of reducing tension in a post-Islamic State Iraq. The logic is comm
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Download PDF: iraq-finance-minister-fights-on-two-fronts-hoshyar-zebari-faces-graft-claims-as-he-tries-to-save-economy-by-erika-solomon Baghdad, SEPTEMBER 11, 2016 Hoshyar Zebari should have been preparing for loan negotiations that could save his country from economic collapse. Instead, Iraq’s finance minister sat in his office waving a file of papers he claims prove that bi
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The number of students admitted to Iraqi law schools has soared in recent years, flooding the market withjob-hungry graduates. The intense competition forces them to work for a fraction of customary charges — if they can find work at all. According to the Student Guide for Central Admission in Iraqi Universities for the 2015-16 academic year, there are 19 public law
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Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and breakdown of the Iraqi state, ethno-sectarian partition has become a popular political mantra. The assumption is that a federal state based on three autonomous regions — Sunni Arab, Shiite Arab and Kurd — is the most realistic way to stabilize Iraq and keep its borders intact. This claim has revived alongside the devasta
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