The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung held a workshop in November 2021 on Shia communities in Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. Executive Summary The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung held a workshop November 22-23, 2021 on Shia communities in Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and
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Iraqis start the second centenary of their history as if they were guests of humanity, as Mahmoud Darwish used to say. One hundred years have passed since the founding of the modern Iraqi state (1921-2021), a zero-harvest centenary for a country that is on the brink of collapse. Iraq faces a host of existential threats, the least dangerous of which is the spectre of corru
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Al-Sistani’s lectures were attended by hundreds of students, many of whom became leading Shiite jurists in the Arab world The grand ayatollah’s outsized persona among Muslims and the world at large will loom large over his successor DUBAI: Besides Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama, few religious leaders today command as much respect among Muslims and non-Muslims alike a
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Baghdad, September 21, 2021 – A new plan to remove constraints and create more economic opportunities for women was launched today by the government of Iraq, with support from the World Bank Group. The Women’s Economic Empowerment Plan for 2021-2022 outlines the government’s priorities in line with its reform program. The plan follows extensive consultations with key stakeho
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At the beginning Sumer (a region of Mesopotamia) was the birthplace of writing, the wheel, agriculture, the arch, the plow, the saw, irrigation, beer, the spear, money, calendar and many other innovations, and is often referred to as the Cradle of Civilization. The Sumerians developed the earliest known writing system – a pictographic writing system known as cuneiform script,
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