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Hamid Alkifaey

Academic

Hamid Alkifaey is an Iraqi writer, academic, and expert on democratization.

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Inconclusive Elections Leave Iraqis Searching for Compromise

Although the May 12 Iraqi parliamentary election was the country’s fifth since 2005, it was remarkably different from the previous ones in many ways. For the first time since the beginning of the democratic process in Iraq following the removal of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in 2003, Iraqi electoral lists, by and large, did not use...

Hamid Alkifaey

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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, right, and Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hold a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, May 20. (Iraqi Government via AP)