Read my latest analysis for KFuture.Media - Examining the Relationship Between Iraqi #Kurdish Islamists and #Erdogan’s #Turkey kfuture.media/examining-the-… #Iraq #Kurdistan #KRG #KRI

Gold in Rio, silver in Tokyo, and a bronze in Paris! Garrah has completed the set at the #Paralympics!

Polio vaccinations have begun on the ground, while Israel continues to kill children from the sky.

10-month-old AbdelRahman was born in #Gaza at the start of the war and is now infected with #polio and is paralysed. He is the first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years, as Gaza’s #Health service has been destroyed, much of it deliberately. #WarCrimes -

It is wild that Netanyahu openly uses a map that erases the whole West Bank with little to no coverage or pushback from the West. The erasure of the West Bank is part of the same genocidal campaign as Gaza, a total assault on Palestinian existence made possible with US support.

“According to the Jenin municipality, more than 70% of Jenin’s streets have been bulldozed; 20 kilometers of water and sewage networks, communication and electric cables have been destroyed; and water has been cut off from 80% of the city.” dropsitenews.com/p/israel-lays-…

Israel is waging war on Palestinian prisoners. This piece by Lisa Hajjar and Basil Farraj is a devastating, necessary deep dive into Israel’s carceral system before and after Oct 7. MERIP merip.org/2024/09/israel…

This was really one of the most impressive fake psyop controversies. People were really pretending to rend their garments in terror that some college student might have said this.

A proposed amendment to Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status law could theoretically make it legal for girls as young as nine years old to get married. Political Science Professor Marsin Alshamary (Marsin Alshamary مارسين الشمري) provides insight for TIME. bit.ly/Alshamary_Time

A young woman, an American citizen, killed by an American-armed Israeli military on illegally-occupied territory.

“If deaths continue at this rate – about 23,000 a month – there would be an additional 149,500 deaths by the end of the year. Using the method, the total deaths since the conflict began would be estimated at about 335,500 in total.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

What an incredible day for Iraq 🇮🇶 at the #paralympics! 19 year old Najla Al-Dayyen wins a gold medal 🥇 in table tennis! Ammar Ali, Zainulabeen Al-Madhkkoori & Hayder Al-Ogaili win a silver medal 🥈 in team fencing! Wildan Nukhailawi wins a bronze medal🥉 in javelin throw!i

In May we met Najlah as she was training in the modestly equipped sports centre of Baquba. She had her eyes on the gold medal in Paris, and her father was confident she was going to excel. "When she promises something, she delivers," he told AFP News Agency tinyurl.com/55xa8yt6

The Little Zab, a river flowing through Iraq's northern Kurdistan has all but dried up, prompting warnings of an "environmental catastrophe" for a water-stressed border city, as it navigates regional water diplomacy with neighbouring Iran tinyurl.com/4mpvyhn5

Iran’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian makes his first visit to Iraq tomorrow. Read my paper for ECFR MENA from April on Iraq-Iran relations.

Disgusting. Dishonest. Depressing. Complete abdication of responsibility as president. There is no other government in the world that Biden would casually cover for in this way. An U.S. citizen - again- was killed by Israeli forces, & the U.S. president’s response is shameful.

Sharing my latest article: "Constructing the Local Woman Peacebuilder: Iraqi Women’s Participation in Local Peacebuilding Programmes", published with International Political Science Review as part of a symposium on Feminist IR in the MENA region. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

مع عدد من السيدات والسادة النواب (اكثر من ١١٠ نائب) جمعنا تواقيع لرفع فقرة القراءة الثانية لتعديل قانون الأحوال الشخصية من الجلسة..وبهذا العدد أيضا سنعمل على كسر النصاب اذا تم الاصرار على إبقاء الفقرة. #لا_لتعديل_قانون_الاحوال_الشخصية

For years, I’ve struggled to articulate why I find the Atlantic so off-putting, but this article gets it: the pernicious disguise of racism under the banner of intellectualism (most recently exhibited with Palestine) & the embarrassing clickbaity packaging of serious topics.