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VIDEO: Can Iraq Unite?

By France 24 English, September 10, 2014

Will the naming of Iraq’s new government mark a turning point in the fight against the Islamic state group? Parliament has approved the government of new Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. Shiite-dominated, but with Sunnis and Kurds in his cabinet, Abadi has been quick to get the congratulations of the White House. After the Iranian-sanctioned ouster of Nouri al-Maliki, the previous prime minister, there’s a lot of fence-mending to do in Iraq’s parliament. Can Iraq unite to face the jihadists?

Guests:

Zaid AL-ALI

Senior Adviser on Constitution Building, International IDEA

Luay J. AL-KHATTEEB

Director, Iraq Energy Institute (IEI); Advisor, The Federal Parliament of Iraq

Sajad JIYAD

Iraq analyst, Freelance consultant & writer

Janine DI GIOVANNI

Middle East Editor of Newsweek

Meet the Author

Zaid Al-Ali has been practicing law since 1999, specializing in international commercial arbitration and comparative constitutional law.

Author Zaid Al-Ali and his wife Rouba Beydoun during a dust storm in Iraq in 2010.

He has law degrees from Harvard Law School, the Université de Paris I (Sorbonne), and King’s College London. From 2005 to 2010, he was a legal adviser to the United Nations focusing on constitutional, parliamentary, and judicial reform in Iraq. Since the beginning of 2011, he has been working on constitutional reform throughout the Arab region, in particular in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. He has published widely on Iraq and on constitutional law.

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