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Imagining the Future Is Just Another Form of Memory

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Privatization in Iraq’s Economy

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Imam Shirazi Center on Consultative and Democratic Political Systems

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2016-07-09

The Roots of Middle East Mistrust

Low-trust societies participate disproportionately less in international commerce, and attract less investment

Articles

2016-07-09

Revisiting the Iraq War

A central theme of the Report is that the Iraq War did not have to happen, and certainly not when it did

News

2016-07-04

IRAQ: DEATH TOLL FROM ISIS-CLAIMED BAGHDAD BOMBINGS CLIMBS TO 213

Officials increase death toll in what is the worst extremist attack in Iraq for a year

News

2016-07-03

ISIS claimed Baghdad blast kills at least 75: officials

The Islamic State group said a suicide car bombing in the capital Baghdad specifically targeted members of the country's Shia Muslim majority

Articles

2016-07-02

WHAT NEXT FOR EU CITIZENS IN POST BREXIT BRITAIN?

Once the U.K. is out, the fundamental principle of free movement will no longer apply

Articles

2016-07-02

Reawakening Europe

Has Brexit paved the way for the decline of one of the EU’s most dynamic economies and the end of London’s reign as a global financial center?

Culture

2016-07-02

Innovation and Its Discontents

Innovations frequently face high barriers to implementation, with governments sometimes banning new technologies outright

Articles

2016-06-29

HOW BREXIT COULD STRENGTHEN ISIS'S MESSAGE OF HATE

Xenophobia and the far right may big the biggest threat to security and could boost ISIS

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2016-06-29

The ‘Leave’ Camp Won. That Doesn’t Mean Brexit Will Happen

Referendums aren’t binding. Just ask the Greeks, who voted to reject EU austerity measures and then saw their government cave anyway

Articles

2016-06-29

A tragic split

How to minimise the damage of Britain’s senseless, self-inflicted blow

Human Rights

2016-06-29

Bahrain Tightens the Screws

Years after promising democratic reforms, Bahrain’s government is going after its critics with a new vigor. How long will London and Washington hold their tongues?

News

2016-06-27

Prime Minister Abadi visits Fallujah, urges Iraqis to celebrate victory over IS

Haider al-Abadi says Iraqi forces will soon raise the flag in Islamic State-controlled Mosul

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2016-06-27

Here’s How the Brexit Will Actually Work

The basics of what happens next are outlined in Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty

Articles

2016-06-26

Brexit and the Future of Europe

. The European migration crisis and the Brexit debate fed on each other

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2016-06-26

When Globalization Goes Digital

It is unfair to dismiss concerns about globalization as unfounded

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2016-06-25

A British Tragedy in One Act

The decision to leave the EU will dominate British national life for the next decade, if not longer

Articles

2016-06-25

Britain’s Democratic Failure

Did the UK’s population really know what they were voting on? Absolutely not

News

2016-06-23

Boko Haram’s victims — now rescued but on the verge of starvation

At a remote camp of 24,000 displaced people in the city of Bama, an average of six people have died per day, mostly from diarrhea and malnutrition

News

2016-06-23

Houthis demand 'unity' president as part of Yemen peace deal

Houthi movement says peace deal must approve new president, as talks with government of Abd Rabbuh Hadi hit fresh obstacle

Articles

2016-06-22

The Era of Cheap Oil Is Coming to an End

Prices have been low for more than two years. With demand rising and supply falling, that’s all beginning to change

Articles

2016-06-22

The Problem with Politicians as Historians

Many politicians continue to spin the facts even after they have left office. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once boasted that, History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it

Articles

2016-06-22

Who’s Winning the Middle East’s Cold War?

The conflict does not involve direct military confrontation between the main rivals, at least not yet

News

2016-06-20

Inside the city of Fallujah, Iraqi forces dodge snipers and car bombs in final fight for the city

Iraqi special forces recaptured the city’s main hospital, which had been used as a base by the enemy, storming it in the afternoon, but the fight here is not over

Human Rights

2016-06-20

Getting a Grip on Migration

Some 240 million people today are living outside their country of birth – enough to form the world’s fifth most populous country

Articles

2016-06-20

The Gulf States’ Expat Dividend

? In Saudi Arabia, foreign nationals account for roughly one-third of the population. In Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, nine out of every ten residents is an expatriate

Culture

2016-06-17

No bed of roses.. Parks are disappearing throughout the Arab world

Carelessness is another culprit. Half of the Arab world’s modern cities are, in effect, unplanned

Human Rights

2016-06-17

Murder for profit… A horrific trade in body parts

People with the genetic disorder, which is characterised by an absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes, have long suffered from discrimination in Malawi, where superstition about the condition runs deep

News

2016-06-13

Bahrain detains rights activist as UN official criticises repression

Raid on home of Nabeel Rajab coincides with UN meeting in Geneva that other activists were barred from attending