Peyman Eshaghi - Ph.D. Candidate of Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin.
The presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey are scheduled to start after approximately 12 months, and although the elections will be in June of 2023, the Turkish president has the authority to hold early elections....
Firas Tariq Makiya/ Political Researcher
The collapse of the totalitarian regime led to the collapse of the first Iraqi state (1921-2003) and was an official sign of the failure of the state project, and the failure of the political and cultural elites to reach a national identity that expresses a...
Dr. Khaled Hashem Mohamed/ Ph.D. in Political Science/ Cairo University
The US administration led by "Joe Biden" confirms that the US policy in the Middle East will remain steadfast, and Washington remains committed to the security of the region and the protection of its countries. However, what is being taken...
Sayyid Muqtada Al-Sadr launched a speech on May 15, 2022, in which he revealed the failure of the attempt to form a majority government. The Sadrist project, included the Sovereignty coalition (also known as Al-Siyada coalition) representing the Sunni component, alongside the Kurdistan Democratic Party representing the Kurdish component.
Al-Sadr...
Japan soon turned its attention to the Middle East. The first Japanese official probably visited Iraq in 1880. But diplomatic relations between the two countries began in 1939, and in 1939 Japan opened its embassy in Baghdad. The exchange of Ambassadors between the two countries in January 1960, the...
Introduction
The Sunni political arena has witnessed rapid developments in the past weeks, after the return of the former political figures -who were wanted by the law- (Rafi al-Issawi and Ali Hatem al-Suleiman) to the Anbar Governorate; In a move that was understood as an attempt to limit the role...
Dr. Firas Elias / Researcher
Introduction
It is no secret to anyone that the complex nature of the conflicts in the Sinjar district today. Some of them stem from the nature of the Iraqi internal reality, which is represented by the struggle for influence and control between the armed groups in...
Ahmed Khudair Hussain/ Director of the Social Studies Department at Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies
Executive Summary:
The absence of youth, this essential and vital community group, from the political process arena created a wide gap between political decision-makers and society, especially if we know that young people in Iraq...
Mufeed Al-Zaidi / Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Baghdad.
It can be said that the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 is the framework that determined the future of Iraqi-Gulf relations. Iraq faced many challenges, including its foreign relations, which it sought to improve, especially with the...
Pakistan-Iraq relations in the past
Following Pakistan’s independence from India in 1947, Iraq has been the first Arab country to recognize Pakistan and support it in the Bengal crisis. Bilateral relations between Iraq and Pakistan, as a result of their presence in different global blocs and different political systems in...
