Iraq deserves more credit for its nascent democracy
By AUSTIN BAY
June 7, 2008
Considering the violent threats, fractured politics and bitter history it confronts, Iraq’s democratic government has accomplished much in two short years.
For a variety of reasons — most self-serving, a few disgustingly dishonest — American and European debate over Iraq all too often [...]
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Iraq deserves more credit for its nascent democracy
Posted in Articles, History, Iraq on June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Iraq’s British-made dictatorial flag still has fans!
Posted in Art, History, Iraq, News on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Iraq flag debate still flutters
Iraqis plan to vote on a new flag by the end of 2008.
from the March 24, 2008 edition
In 2004, the US-led occupation authority commissioned Rifat Chadirji to design a new Iraqi flag. The flag would have replaced a Saddam Hussein-era one: A red, white, and black flag that had three [...]
Happy New Babylonian Year!
Posted in Art, History, Iraq, The South on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This Friday: the New Year in Southern Iraq!
03/18/2008
The people of Southern Iraq are celebrating the New Year this Friday. The celebration is called “Dawrat al-Sana” or “al-Dokhol.” Amazingly, this well-observed tradition by the people of Southern Iraq is, in fact, the Babylonian New Year, the Akitu Festival!
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Akitu Festival
Akitu: the [...]
Shiite writer calls for “rebirth”!
Posted in Articles, History, Iraq, Iraqi Scholars, The South on November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By Babylonian Society
November 11, 2007
In an op-ed published in sot al-iraq website, Hussien Baqir Jassim called for a rebirth of the Sumerian and Akkadian region in the Southern part of the modern state of Iraq.
The writer who strongly in favor of federalism in Iraq emphasizes the importance of maintaining a unified federal region for all [...]
Iraqi Assyrians call for their own federal region: Assyria
Posted in Articles, Assyria, History, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, News on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Political Platform of Save Assyria Front (SAF)
Moscow, 26/08/2007
The transition from the reality of our divided nation toward unification is the duty of the Assyrian contemporary political movement, where the rules of procedure and the political agenda of Assyrian organizations and parties recognize the historical and national inherent rights to Assyria, with no [...]
What’s in common between Belgium and Iraq?
Posted in Articles, History, Iraq on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
‘Belgium? Something that does not exist’ Political fault lines divide nation
Long-running crisis could lead to nation separating into Flanders and Wallonia
Ian Traynor in Steenokkerzeel
Monday September 17, 2007
Willy the florist has had enough of his kingdom. He is an unwilling subject of an unloved country. A middle-class father of 12-year-old twins running a thriving flower business [...]
Iraq’s history
Posted in 2008 Elections, Articles, Bloggers, History, Iraq on September 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Like many other Arab countries, the independent state of Iraq has no root in history. Charles Krauthammer’s excellent column “Weak, partitioned Iraq now appears to be likely outcome” (Commentary, Sept. 10) should be understood in the historical context of the birth of Iraq from Mesopotamia, an area held by the Ottoman Empire [...]
A divorce settlement: the road to soft partition!
Posted in Articles, History, Iraq, Kurdistan, Scholars on September 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Three Nation Solution: The Only Logical, Natural and Inevitable Outcome
By Peter Stitt – Kurdishaspect.com
After most conflicts borders tend to be redrawn by the victors and it can easily be argued that victors are probably the least well qualified parties to make such monumental decisions. Winston Churchill once observed of the Versailles Treaty that ended [...]
Remaking Iraq: Success, Failure, and the Foundation of a New Iraq
Posted in Articles, History, Iraq, Iraqi Scholars, Kurdistan, Scholars, Speeches on September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Definition of Federalism in the New Constitution
Talk given on Federalism and the Case of Kurdistan at AEI on 5 October 2005 in Washington DC
By Munther AL FADHAL
Constitutional Commission member
Iraqi National Assembly member
www.fadhal.net
In October 2002, I had the honor to participate in the Conference held by AEI and called: “The Day After: Planning for a [...]
Iraqi Confederation? More Reactions to Krauthammer’s Op-ed
Posted in Articles, Bloggers, History, Iraq, Washington Post on September 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Iraqi Confederation?
By Thomas E. Brewton
September 8, 2007
We tried it in the United States from 1781 until the Constitution was ratified in 1789.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer observes that the political process in Iraq is moving in the direction of informal partitioning into a Kurdish region in the north, a Sunni region, and a Shiite province in the [...]
