This release from MEMRI's Baghdad office focuses primarily on editorials addressing Iraq's new administrative institutions, the country's relations with the Arab League , and the nature of the soon to be drafted constitution. In the Annex MEMRI publishes the eighth biographical note on a figure in Iraq's post Saddam leadership: the Grand Ayatollah Ali Hussein Al-Sistani. Editorials I. An Assessment of Iraq's New Administrative Institutions The daily Al-Qabas (published by The New Iraqi ...
On September 22, 2003, an agent of Iran's Intelligence Ministry was charged with the murder of Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi. Commenting on the arrest, a spokesman from the prosecutor's office said "The crime is attributed to one of the Intelligence Ministry interrogators," and added that no government body was involved. 1 Kazemi, of Iranian origin, was arrested on June 23, 2003 after photographing and interviewing relatives of detainees arrested during riots in Tehran. Subsequently, ...
In three articles posted on the liberal Arabic-language website www.elaph.com during June 2003, Tunisian intellectual Lafif Lakhdar 1 discusses the Arab identity crisis and education in the Arab world, in addition to other issues. The following are excerpts from the articles. 2 For more information on Al-Afif Al-Akhdar, see the Reform in the Arab and Muslim World section of MEMRI's website: http://www.memri.org/reform.html . Why Do Other People Love Life While We Love Death? "Why is it that our ...
The following is the eighth release from MEMRI's Baghdad office. It focuses on editorials which appeared in the Iraqi press regarding President Bush's speech on funding for Iraqi reconstruction, Iraqi sectarianism in response to terror, and the building of a new Iraqi regime. In Annex VI, MEMRI publishes the sixth biographical note on one of Iraq's post-Saddam leaders. In this issue, the biographical note is that of Jalal Al-Talabani. Editorials I. The Iraqi Press on President Bush's September ...
The following report is the seventh release from MEMRI's Baghdad office. It focuses on editorials which appeared in the Iraqi press regarding the assassination of Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir Al-Hakim, Iraq's relations with the Arab world, terrorism in Baghdad, as well as other issues relating to the rebuilding of Iraq. In Annex V MEMRI publishes the fifth biographical note on one of Iraq's post-Saddam leaders. In this issue, the biographical note is that of Dr. Ibrahim Al-Ashaiqer Al-Ja'fari. ...
The following report is the sixth release from MEMRI's Baghdad office. It focuses on editorials which appeared in the Iraqi press regarding Iraq 's relations with the Arab world, terrorism in Baghdad , and the rebuilding of Iraq . There are over 100 dailies and weeklies published in Iraq, many of which characterize themselves as "politically independent," while others are clearly associated with established political parties or groups such as Al-Mu'tamar (Iraqi National Congress headed by Dr. ...
The following report is the fifth release from MEMRI's Baghdad office. It focuses on editorials which appeared in the Iraqi press regarding the Arab reaction to the new Iraq , terrorism in Iraq , the Governing Council, religious pluralism, and other regional issues. There are over 100 dailies and weeklies published in Iraq, many of which characterize themselves as "politically independent," while others are clearly associated with established political parties or groups such as Al-Mu'tamar ( ...
The following report is the fourth release from MEMRI's Baghdad office. It focuses on editorials which appeared in the Iraqi press regarding the new Iraqi government, ethnic pluralism, domestic strife, the deaths of Qusay and Uday Hussein, and other regional issues. There are over 100 dailies and weeklies published in Iraq, many of which characterize themselves as "politically independent," while others are clearly associated with established political parties or groups such as Al-Mu'tamar ( ...
The London-based Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that Hussein Khomeini, the grandson of the founder of Iran's Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, had left his place of residence in Iran's holy Shi'ite city of Qom to relocate to Iraq's holy Shi'ite city of Najaf , which is traditionally the seat of the highest Shi'ite religious authority, as a sign of protest against Iran's regime. 1 Hussein Khomeini, 46, called the Iranian regime "the world's worst dictatorship," and ...
The following report is the third release from MEMRI's Baghdad office. It focuses on editorials which appeared in the Iraqi press regarding the deaths of Saddam Hussein's sons , the new governing council of Iraq , the coalition provisional administration, and the role of the U.N. in Iraq . In addition to its regular service of dispatches from the Iraqi media, MEMRI will issue, as an annex, a biographical note on the leading members of the Iraqi Governing Council. The first biography is that of ...
