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SEMINAR: Seeds of Discord: Constitutional Woes from Iraq to the Arab Spring

By Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, April 23, 2015

HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT: A seminar with Zaid Al Ali. What can the countries of the Arab Spring learn from the Constitutional missteps of Iraq? The Arab world has seen a historic moment of constitutional reform on the global stage, but so far reaped only modest benefits. Constitutional expert Zaid Al-Ali will examine Iraq’s fraught constitutional process in the wake of American military intervention and draw parallels to regional actors now undergoing their own delicate transitions.

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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