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...more acceptable Adil Abdul Mahdi, and his refusal to deal with secular politicians like former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has confounded U.S. attempts to nudge the Shi'ites to form a national unity government. "We did our best to bring [al-Sadr] into the political process," says Redha Jawad Taqi, a senior leader of SCIRI, the largest Shi'ite party. "But [the Sadrists] believe wrong things about democracy...
...Democratic Republic of the Congo, will join the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research. In addition to the six fellows formally affiliated with SAR, two SAR scholars from previous years have also remained on campus and taken up positions at the University. Saleh Abdel Jawad, a Palestinian professor of political science, has joined the History Department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, while Mehrangiz Kar, an Iranian human rights activist, journalist, and lawyer, is now a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Cogan University Professor Steven...
...stumbling block is the Sunni contingent, which opposes a partition along sectarian or ethnic lines and wants a strong central government. "The Sunni Arabs are already pushing back on this. They all hate it," said a U.S. embassy official familiar with the drafting process. Jawad al-Malaki, a Shi'ite committee member and adviser to Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, calls the Sunni approach a nonstarter, warning that it could lead to a new dictatorship. Meanwhile, the U.S. is trying to convince the Sunnis that federalism is in their interest. "If you had the kind of system the Sunnis want...
...four Iraqi officials complained about lacking resources that many Western universities take for granted. Mosa Jawad Aziz Almosawe, the President of the University of Baghdad, repeatedly mentioned a pressing need for more seats and blackboards in classrooms...
...interventionism. Says Isam al-Rawi, an outspoken Sunni cleric in Baghdad: "Ahmadinejad is a man with narrow religious views, and he wants to export these." But Iraq's Shi'a establishment, which has deep ties to Iran, is nonplussed. "Ahmadinejad is a young man, a new player," says Rada Jawad Taqi, a Shi'a member of Iraq's interim National Assembly. "We have no relationship with him at all, but we have to build...