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Iraq
Iraq reels from $2.5bn tax ‘heist of the century’
...and paramilitary strongman Hadi Al-Amiri....
November 17, 2022
Books
What to read in 2024
...The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq by Stephen Coll (Allen Lane/Penguin Press)A “definitive” account of the decades-long ties between the US and Saddam...
December 28, 2023
FT Live
Accelerating the Energy Transition in Asia
Industrial strategies and policy drivers for sustainability
Tuesday, 30 JulyMandala Club, 31 Bukit Pasoh Rd, Singapore 089845
Travel
Iraq, 20 years on
...We hope that where civilisation began here in Mesopotamia, it will become happier again’ A boat ride along the Shatt al-Arab — the waterway after the Euphrates and Tigris converge — passes Saddam Hussein...
March 6, 2023
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appointed prime minister
...“This has nothing to with the king’s health,” said Ali Shihabi....
September 27, 2022
News in-depthIraq
Crippling dollar shortage underscores vulnerability of Iraq’s oil-based economy
...Ali Mohsen al-Allaq, the new central bank governor, defended measures introduced to stabilise the monetary crisis that has led to an acute shortage of US dollars and a sharp fall in the dinar....
March 27, 2023
Kim Ghattas
Unrest and unsettled leaders bode ill for the Middle East in 2023
...Think back to the Arab uprisings of 2011, the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the Iranian revolution of 1979. We are overdue a tectonic shift....
January 19, 2023
FT Live
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Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
David Gardner
The future of Iraq is in the balance
...They joined up with the more than 100,000-strong Popular Mobilisation Forces, blessed by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s spiritual leader, as Isis pressed south towards Baghdad and the Shia shrine...
November 11, 2021
ObituaryIran
Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur: cleric and revolutionary, 1947-2021
...Iran was by then in a deadly war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and Syrian president Hafez al-Assad was the only Arab leader to back the Islamic republic....
June 18, 2021
Iraq
Pope Francis meets Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
...During a 45-minute meeting at Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’s simple home in Najaf, which the hermetic cleric rarely leaves, Pope Francis thanked the 90-year-old “for speaking up — together with the Shia...
March 6, 2021
ReviewHistory books
The Spymaster of Baghdad — true fighters
...Abu Ali al-Basri’s mole within Isis who had provided information that led to the attack had also been killed....
May 13, 2021
Middle Eastern companies
Trade emerges as latest flashpoint in deepening Saudi-UAE rivalry
...“The UAE cannot benefit from the single market like this,” said Mohammed al-Suwayed, chief executive of Razeen Capital, a Riyadh-based investment advisory firm....
July 14, 2021
News in-depthMiddle Eastern politics & society
Saudi and Iranian officials hold talks to patch up relations
...The official said the Saudi delegation was led by Khalid bin Ali al-Humaidan, the intelligence chief, adding that another round of talks had been scheduled for next week....
April 18, 2021
Iraq
Baghdad Covid hospital fire kills at least 82
...Ali al-Bayati, a member of Iraq’s High Commission for Human Rights, which monitors civilian casualties, said 28 people in the hospital ward were on ventilators....
April 25, 2021
Person in the News
Abdulaziz bin Salman, the prince in charge of Saudi oil
...Years working for technocrats such as former ministers Ali Al Naimi and Khalid Al Falih, people close to him say, is a sign of his temperament despite being a prince bestowed with immense privilege....
June 4, 2021
Due Diligence
Inside the fall of Teneo’s ‘dark arts’ PR master Premium content
...Job moves Khalid al-Dabbagh is stepping down as chief financial officer of Saudi Aramco. He will be replaced by Ziad al-Murshed, Bloomberg reported....
July 2, 2021
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
David Gardner
Joe Biden should learn from the Arab uprising 10 years on
...This misconceived war removed the tyranny of Saddam Hussein and sought to reshape the Arab world along democratic lines....
December 21, 2020
Iraq
Basra killings dash hopes that Iraq can rein in militias
...And in July, Hisham al-Hashemi, a close adviser to the prime minister, was shot dead in Baghdad in an incident which many suspected to be retaliation....
August 20, 2020
Saudi Arabia
Saudi oil shake-up to spark fresh unease in energy market
...Mr Falih’s predecessor, Ali al-Naimi, held the post for 21 years....
September 9, 2019
Iraq
Brutal crackdown on Iraq protests echoes Saddam Hussein era
...Shia Islamists lead the two biggest blocs in Iraq’s fractious parliament — one answering to Moqtada al-Sadr, a populist former militia leader, and the other headed by Hadi al-Ameri, another ex-militia commander...
November 24, 2019
Saudi Arabia
Saudi oil gamble threatens crown prince’s modernisation plan
...The then-oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, pursued a similar strategy of ramping up production in the hope that volume would offset price declines....
March 9, 2020
Middle Eastern politics & society
Baghdad to review US ties as anger over bombing grows
...Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s most senior Shia cleric, on Monday condemned the American strikes and said Iraqi authorities must work to prevent the country from becoming a “battleground to settle regional...
December 30, 2019
Iraq
Iraqi protesters torch Iranian consulate as anti-Tehran anger grows
...Pro-Iran Iraqi militia leaders sought to frame the consulate attack as an affront to Iraq’s highest Shia religious leader, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani....
November 28, 2019
Iraq
Iraq puts pressure on Washington for troops withdrawal plan
...Iraq’s most revered Shia Muslim cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, on Friday denounced foreign powers interfering in Iraq....
January 10, 2020
Person in the News
Mohammed bin Salman: a combustible royal blazes a trail
...“The system had been frozen into ‘wisdom’ and timidity when you needed a tiger to break through all these taboos,” says Ali al-Shihabi, a Saudi commentator....
December 13, 2019
David Gardner
Donald Trump has given Iran an excuse to abandon diplomacy
...At Soleimani’s funeral, Ayatollah Khamenei gave almost equal billing to Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed alongside the Quds general....
January 8, 2020

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