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Iraq’s final constitution (Arabic)

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This is the Arabic text of Iraq’s constitution. The constitution was approved by referendum on 15 October 2005, and entered into force in 2006 when Nouri al-Maliki’s first government was sworn into office. This particular version of the constitution is a scanned copy of the relevant section from Iraq’s Official Gazette, which is the most official source available.

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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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