As Iraq continues to face widespread demonstrations and the fallout of escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, Iraq’s President Barham Salih nominated a new prime minister on February 1, to succeed Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, who announced his resignation on November 29. Salih named Mohammed Tawfik Allawi as his designee for the premiership. Salih has set a
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Work of trainees in Iraq has enabled new understanding of objects going on show in UK The exhibition features artefacts removed from Iraq in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Composite: British Museum For decades they have been part of the collection of the British Museum, appreciated for their individual significance but in many cases shorn of much of their context owin
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As the deadline for the U.S. to renew its waiver on Iraq importing gas and electricity from Iran approaches later this month, the three key players in this ongoing geopolitical saga have been preparing for all possible outcomes. As always in the global hydrocarbons markets, particularly in the Middle East, nothing is what it seems on first sight, with each of the main countries
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Alnasrawi, Abbas. Iraq’s Burden: Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. 180 pp. (cloth). Download PDF Akram.AlnasrawiBook
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Abbas Alnasrawi is at the Department of Economics at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA. E-mail: aalnasra@zoo.uvm.edu. ABSTRACT It is a well-known fact, of course, that Iraq has been under a UN Security Council system of comprehensive embargo for the past 10 years. The consequences of 'the embargo have been catastrophic for the people and the econ
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