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...Join Elif Shafak, author, Yalda Hakim, BBC World News presenter; Edward Luce, FT US national editor; Nader Mousavizadeh, Macro Advisory Partners founding partner and CEO, for a discussion moderated by Roula...
...Activists like Mr Hakim argue Isis is not actually getting stronger....
...Edward Mortimer is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and author of ‘Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam’ (Faber)....
...The government said that, as was standard practice, it could neither confirm nor deny that intelligence agencies had intercepted communications between Abdul-Hakim Belhaj, who alleges he was the victim of...
...The family of Sami Al Saadi have since settled their civil claim for £2.2m in 2012 although the case of the other claimant Abel Hakim Belhaj comes before the Supreme Court this year....
...Ahmed Majid never supported Iraq’s prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, nor his Islamic Dawa party....
...“In a lot of the southern provinces the Sadrists and Hakim outnumbered him.”...
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...But they owe their success above all to the way Nouri al-Maliki, the Shia Islamist prime minister now expecting a third term after this spring’s general election, has pursued a sectarian agenda, persecuting...
...Nonetheless, with Shia factions loyal to Moqtada Sadr and others loyal to cleric Ammar Hakim, as well as the Kurds all announcing they would not join any Maliki-led Cabinet, his political career may be finished...
...His opponents are beginning to band against him – including Shia movements associated with prominent clerical dynasties such as the Hakims and the Sadrs....
...The Investigatory Powers Tribunal is due to hear a case lodged by human rights groups that stems from the US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations about state surveillance....
...After eight years in power, Nouri al-Maliki, prime minister, is seeking a third term but this is far from a certainty, with voters tired of poor public services and renewed levels of violence as the Islamic...
...He also met foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd, Shia leader Ammar al-Hakim and Osama al-Nujaifi, the Sunni speaker of parliament....
...However, describing scenes of civilians brandishing weapons near his home in Amriyah, a Sunni area known for its opposition to the Shia-led government of Nouri al-Maliki, he said: “There will come a time...
...In the 1960s, Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim ordered Shia soldiers not to fire on Kurdish rebels, out of a sense of affinity with a fellow population seething under minority Sunni Arab rule....
...“Change will come with the new generation,” Hana Edward reassures me. “That’s what gives me hope.”...
...CRIME A Private Business, by Barbara Nadel, Quercus, RRP£18.99, 320 pages A female stand-up comic known for her edgy routines turns to PIs Hakim and Arnold to find out if someone is stalking her but she...
...But the Da’wa of Nouri al-Maliki, prime minister, now competes with its former ally, the old Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq of the Hakim clerical family, which is now allied with a rival...
...“The key question remains whether Nouri al-Maliki will join the new alliance or not,” said Reidar Visser, an Iraq expert at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Hakim’s family emerged as one...
...Last week also saw the emergence of a new Shia coalition, the Iraqi National Alliance, in opposition to prime minister Nouri al-Maliki and his Da’wa party....
...“You have violent forces opposed to democracy in Afghanistan,” Mr Obama said, shortly after holding a meeting with Nouri Al-Maliki, Iraq’s prime minister, on the January polls scheduled there....
...Supreme Council leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, who is suffering from lung cancer, is being treated in the neighbouring country....
...Mr Obama met with Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s prime minister, and Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, in Baghdad....
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