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Iraq’s environment

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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.

RT @KamalChomani: I started a Google online poll & posted it on my FB last night & continued it till today morning -7 hours- asking: WHICH… about 3 hours ago
According to their conception, the KRG is at its weakest point since 2003, politically, economically, legally, inte… https://t.co/zSBp1aLCZl about 3 hours ago in reply to zalali
(3) There are powerful political forces in Baghdad who have been waiting 20 years for this moment and will want to… https://t.co/2uu8cyp0OH about 3 hours ago in reply to zalali
(2) Neither side will want to rush into a settlement that is not fully to their advantage as that may be regarded a… https://t.co/KlHDl0RCCW about 3 hours ago in reply to zalali
There are at least three reasons to think that it will take much longer to reach a settlement "in a few days": (1)… https://t.co/JqdsHezMnY about 3 hours ago in reply to zalali
CODA - A KRG delegation was in Baghdad to try to negotiate an agreement that would allow for oil to restart flowing… https://t.co/B8U5OYhUb4 about 3 hours ago in reply to zalali
Iraq’s waters contaminated with feces, oil and medical waste https://t.co/YGWPdMjOUM about 4 hours ago
Iraqi President calls on UN to ensure fair distribution of water https://t.co/QbDW1XzXcC about 5 hours ago
Iraq's water quality in decline despite record government spending, report finds https://t.co/kStqNrkGwL via @TheNationalNews about 5 hours ago
Erdogan pledges to ease Iraq's water shortage https://t.co/wVTGgoI8i1 via @FRANCE24 about 5 hours ago

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