Early Elections or Restorative Elections?
June 6, 2021 is the date Iraq’s new Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has set for early elections. Announcing this date on the last day of July 2020, al-Kadhimi granted his government ten months to...
View ArticleIraq Protests Battle for State Sovereignty
In October of 2019, Iraq witnessed the launch of a mass protest movement known as the “October Revolution,” with the slogan “We Want a Homeland” (نريد وطن ), which has become the movement’s online...
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Hate Speech, Social Media and Political Violence in Iraq: Virtual Civil...
With over half of Iraq’s population active on social media, technology has been an important site of community building and political mobilization, particularly around the “October Revolution” that...
View ArticleFree Speech Under Threat in Iraq
Since 2019, the Iraq protest movement, dubbed the “Tishreen (October) Revolution,” has revealed the lengths to which both state and non-state actors are willing to silence dissent and free speech....
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