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		<title>Lessons from Morocco’s protests: Why MENA governments still need citizens’ buy-in</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hayder Al-Shakeri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Morocco, youth-led protests have spread across several cities, organized through platforms such as TikTok and Discord. What began as outrage over reports that eight women died while giving birth at a public hospital in Agadir has evolved into a broader movement demanding better healthcare, education and jobs. One chant captured the public mood: ‘Stadiums [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Beyond the uprisings: Pragmatic lessons from the Arab Spring</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Farea Al-Muslimi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nearly 15 years after the Arab Spring, the countries that experienced those uprisings have either slipped back into the grip of authoritarian leaders or are grappling with significant instability. For those individuals at the forefront of protest movements that advocated wide-ranging reforms, the inability to realize the goals of the uprisings has triggered a process [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The role of transnational networks in Kurdish migration to the UK</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zmkan Ali Saleem]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 12:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In February 2024, Europol announced the dismantling ‘one of the most active and largest people-smuggling gangs operating in Calais’ with the help of German, French and Belgian police. Many migrants on their way to the UK from Iraq and the rest of the Middle East to the UK gather in the French city of Calais [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tackling barriers to climate reform in Iraq</title>
		<link>https://kalam.chathamhouse.org/tackling-barriers-to-climate-reform-in-iraq/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hayder Al-Shakeri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2024 11:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[During the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28) in 2023, the Iraqi president Abdullatif Rasheed pledged to undertake rapid executive measures to tackle the effects of climate change. Iraq is among the five most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. Yet the country’s political elite are routinely pushing environmental [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ignoring the roots of violence in the Israel–Palestine conflict challenges any future peace</title>
		<link>https://kalam.chathamhouse.org/ignoring-the-roots-of-violence-in-the-israel-palestine-conflict-challenges-any-future-peace/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hayder Al-Shakeri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Levant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict & violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Only by addressing the suffering on all sides can we understand what is happening – and what can come next. Full article in English is published here. The full Arabic translation could be found here.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Are new US financial restrictions on Iraq missing their target?</title>
		<link>https://kalam.chathamhouse.org/are-new-us-financial-restrictions-on-iraq-missing-their-target/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hayder Al-Shakeri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[External actors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geopolitics & security]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The latest restrictions are a symptom of increased US-Iran tensions. But as Iraq’s elite find ways around them, ordinary Iraqis are the ultimate victims. &#160; You can read the full article here.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Can Iraq’s new government reform the corrupt system?</title>
		<link>https://kalam.chathamhouse.org/can-iraqs-new-government-reform-the-corrupt-system/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hayder Al-Shakeri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Mohammed Shia&#8217; al-Sudani must address politically sanctioned corruption head-on, or he risks falling into the same trap as his predecessors. This article is available on this website in Arabic, you can read the full English version here.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The aspirations and disillusionment of Iraq’s youth</title>
		<link>https://kalam.chathamhouse.org/the-aspirations-and-disillusionment-of-iraqs-youth/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hayder Al-Shakeri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance & accountability]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Despite their disillusionment with Iraq’s political system, the country’s youth have hope and aspirations for real change. As Iraq’s political stalemate persists, many observers expect protests will erupt over the country’s worsening socio-economic situation, the increasing effects of climate change – such as heat waves and dust storms – and a lack of political will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Iraq’s new MPs must unite to achieve genuine change</title>
		<link>https://kalam.chathamhouse.org/iraqs-new-mps-must-unite-to-achieve-genuine-change/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hayder Al-Shakeri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new generation of independent MPs and parties emerging from the protests in Iraq can reform the country&#8217;s politics, but only if they work together. Iraq&#8217;s newly-elected MPs recently gathered for the first time, three months after an election in which an alternative new generation of independents and protest parties won dozens of seats in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The political economy of electioneering in Iraq</title>
		<link>https://kalam.chathamhouse.org/the-political-economy-of-electioneering-in-iraq/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hayder Al-Shakeri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance & accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political economy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many Iraqis are disillusioned with their unaccountable political system, which deprives them of basic services and fundamental standards of living. On October 10, Iraqis head to the polls in their country&#8217;s sixth election since regime change in 2003. Despite the promises of democracy, many Iraqis have become disillusioned with their political system, which deprives them [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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