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Iraq’s previous constitutions

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This folder brings together all of Iraq’s previous constitutions, from the late Ottoman basic documents to the 2004 interim constitution that was passed by the US administered Coalition Provisional Authority. The folder includes the Arabic originals and unofficial translations. Zaid has changed the manner in which some of these documents are presented, mainly by creating table of contents and including titles for each individual article, for ease of reference.

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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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