{"id":1450,"date":"2018-03-08T07:02:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T07:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2018-03-08T07:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T07:02:13","slug":"spanish-ambassador-to-iraq-visits-al-bayan-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/2018\/03\/1450\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Ambassador to Iraq visits Al-Bayan Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Bayan Center hosted the Spanish ambassador to Iraq, Hansi Escobar, for a wide-ranging discussion about current developments in the country and the role of think tanks in advancing policymaking. Head of research, Ali Al-Mawlawi, discussed the work of the Center and highlighted some of the most important aspects of economic and institutional reform that are needed to address the country\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador Escobar discussed some of the challenges facing Iraq in the post-ISIS period including managing the country\u2019s rising population, and emphasised the importance of greater dialogue between the international community and Iraqi think tanks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Bayan Center works to advance public policy in Iraq by engaging with experts and practitioners in order to address the country\u2019s most pressing developmental needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Bayan Center hosted the Spanish ambassador to Iraq, Hansi Escobar, for a wide-ranging discussion about current developments in the country and the role of think tanks in advancing policymaking. Head of research, Ali Al-Mawlawi, discussed the work of the Center and highlighted some of the most important aspects of economic and institutional reform that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[169,170],"class_list":{"0":"post-1450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","9":"tag-spanish-ambassador"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0908987.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Y2nv-no","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}