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INTERVIEW: Life Under IS In Ramadi

By James Menendez, January 2, 2016

BBC WORLD SERVICE: Iraqi law enforcement bribery; life on Death Row; Lars Ulrich on Lemmy; and President Xi’s rap debut. Zaid’s interview begins at minute 7.

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.

Tunisia: Administrative Court rejects 2 appeals against Constitution referendum results https://t.co/G7UtOb2sLT via @middleeastmnt about 59 minutes ago
@RubaAlHassani Most shocking thing for me about the parliament building has always been that the only desk in the f… https://t.co/Phtha5SBf8 11:13:57 PM August 06, 2022 in reply to RubaAlHassani
RT @amin_snoussi: Heureux de retrouver Jeune Afrique pour une longue analyse du mandat de Kais Saied depuis 1 an, du référendum et de la lé… 10:22:55 PM August 05, 2022
RT @HarryIstepanian: Water scarcity continues in Iraq despite Turkish false promises.. in the video a man from Hilla is pleading the govern… 06:43:11 PM August 05, 2022
RT @Lyobserver: Khaled Mishri re-elected as president for High Council of State for 5th term https://t.co/wFhY8TnIOt 04:07:13 PM August 01, 2022
@iraqi_day Looks like there are around 200 people there?… 04:01:06 PM August 01, 2022 in reply to iraqi_day
@ali_almikdam Not sure this counts as a clash 03:59:23 PM August 01, 2022 in reply to ali_almikdam
@fanarhaddad Well so far the very least that’s happening is that security forces are being permissive towards the sadrists. 01:41:19 PM August 01, 2022 in reply to fanarhaddad
@FIstrabadi @HarryIstepanian @yesar @bdfne there were a few people who were not quite high level but not that far.… https://t.co/z7wKLBFxt3 10:10:00 AM August 01, 2022 in reply to FIstrabadi
RT @SASGonLibya: My end of tenure statement: https://t.co/7HdxpzGEWB https://t.co/4xFmd75ySb 10:04:28 PM July 31, 2022

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