Starting soon, at 6:00 p.m. CEST! At the closing session of #Iraq20YearsOn lecture series we'll continue our discussion on #PoliticsOfMemory in #Iraq. Today with Amer Sultan, Arran Robert Walshe, Michael Brill, and Dina Khoury on panel. Join here: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation

Closing session of our lecture series #Iraq20YearsOn: Join part two of our discussion on #PoliticsOfMemory in #Iraq with Amer Sultan, Arran Robert Walshe, Michael Brill, and Dina Khoury.
➡️ Register here for 20 June: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation

Starting at 6pm CEST! #PoliticsOfMemory at #Iraq20YearsOn lecture series. Register and join Haidar Hadi (Stanford University, USA), Ruiheng Li (Peking University, China), Asher Orkaby (Princeton University’s Transregional Institute / Harvard University, USA), and #GIGA’s André Bank in their discussion: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation

#Iraq20YearsOn: Next session of our lecture series on #Iraq will focus on #PoliticsOfMemory. Welcoming to the panel: Haidar Hadi (Stanford University), Ruiheng Li (Peking University), Asher Orkaby (Princeton University’s Transregional Institute / Harvard University), and #GIGA’s André Bank.
➡️ Register here for 13 June: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation

#Iraq20YearsOn: Next lecture of our online series will focus on #GenderPolitics & Imaginaries in #Iraq. On the panel: Isis Nusair (Denison University, USA), Zhiya Qader (University of Sulaimani, KRI, Iraq), Thamir R. S. Az-Zubaidy (Wasit University, Iraq), and Nadje Al-Ali (Brown University, USA).

➡️ Register here for 6 June: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation

Starting at 6pm CEST: Next session of our online lecture series #Iraq20YearsOn, today focussing on #Protests & #Violence in #Iraq. On the panel: David Jordan, Mujtaba Ali Isani, and Achim Rohde

➡️ Register here: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation

Starting soon, at 6pm CEST! Online lecture on #Politics in #Iraq: Keiko Sakai (Chiba University, Japan), Sardar Aziz (former senior adviser in Kurdistan Parliament/Iraq), Jinan Al-Habbal, (The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)), and Hamit Bozarslan (EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) will discuss. Join us: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation
Part of our event series #Iraq20YearsOn.

#Iraq20YearsOn: Next panel of our online lecture series will discuss Iraqi #Politics, featuring Keiko Sakai (Chiba University, Japan), Sardar Aziz (former senior adviser in Kurdistan Parliament/Iraq), Jinan Al-Habbal (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK), and Hamit Bozarslan (EHESS).
➡️ Register at the #GIGA for 23 May: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation #Iraq

#Iraq20YearsOn: The upcoming lecture of our series is dedicated to #Art & #Literature.
Phoebe Carter and Paul Chouchana (Harvard), Nuha Askar (Goethe-Universität) and Achim Rohde (Academy in Exile) will share their insights about #IraqiCulture.

➡️ Register here: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation

Starting soon, at 6 p.m. CEST! Join our online lecture on #Institutions in #Iraq: #Education, #Health, and the Legal System. With Silvia Nicola, Mohammad Koperly, Ruba Ali Al-Hassani and Dalia Abid on the panel.
➡️ https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation
Part of joint series #Iraq20YearsOn.

“#Institutions: #Education, #Health, and the Legal System” #Iraq20YearsOn
Silvia Nicola, Mohammad Koperly, Ruba Ali Al-Hassani and Dalia Abid will discuss reforming institutions at the next session of our lecture series on #Iraq.
➡️ Register here for 27 April: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation

Film Screening & Discussion: About Baghdad (2004)—Award-Winning #Documentary

Thurs 27 April 2023
1PM EST 8PM Baghdad

"#AboutBaghdad is the first film made about #Iraq after the fall of the Ba’ath regime in July 2003. [..] It is perhaps the first effort to privilege the voices of the Iraqi people, from all walks of life as well as social, economic and ethnic backgrounds."

https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/44975/About-Baghdad%E2%80%94Award-Winning-Documentary-2004

#IraqWar #Iraq20YearsAfter #Iraq2003 #Iraq20yearsOn #RégimeChangeWars #cinema #DocumentaryCinema

Film Screening and Discussion: About Baghdad (2004)—Award-Winning #Documentary

Thurs 27 April 2023
1PM EST 8PM Baghdad

#AboutBaghdad is the first film made about #Iraq after the fall of the Ba’ath regime in July 2003. [..] It is perhaps the first effort to privilege the voices of the Iraqi people, from all walks of life as well as social, economic and ethnic backgrounds."

https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/44975/About-Baghdad%E2%80%94Award-Winning-Documentary-2004

#IraqWar #Iraq20YearsAfter #Iraq2003 #Iraq20yearsOn #RégimeChangeWars #cinema #DocumentaryCinema

#Iraq20YearsOn: Lecture on “Economy and Natural Resources”, 25 April

We're happy to have Ariel Ahram, Farhad Mamshai, Farhan Aljawareen, Ebrahim Abbassi, as well as #GIGA expert @eckart at the next session of our series on #Iraq. Register here: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation

Jointly organised by Universität Hamburg Brown University The George Washington University, EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and #GIGA.

#Iraq20YearsOn: “The Politics of the #Kurdistan Region of #Iraq”
We’re happy to have Ibrahim Malazada (Soran University, KRI, Iraq), Gregory Kruczek (Penn State University, USA), Eckart Woertz (GIGA) and Dastan Jasim (GIGA) at the next session of our joint online lecture series with Universität Hamburg, Brown University, George Washington University and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

➡️ Register here for 18 April: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation

#Iraq20YearsOn:
“#Diaspora and #IdentityPolitics”
We welcome Samuel Helfont, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, #GIGA’s André Bank and Nils Lukacs to the next session on 11 April as part of our joint online lecture series by the Brown University, the George Washington University, the Universität Hamburg, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the GIGA on #Iraq: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation

(Ep. 66) War Crimes and Lies - Iraq 20 Years Later - Through the Eyes of the Soldiers Who Fought
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Yup, one more retrospective on the #IraqWar. We discuss the lead up, the lies, the & then watch the #NYT doc #Iraq20YearsOn & do live reaction. Then some closing thoughts.

💯 was intentional. They didn’t screw up. They planned it. They lied.

It was intentional

It was and is a #WarCrime

These people don't deserve forgiveness. The crime was too great.

https://youtu.be/Yb6VkS0ylys

Conference on #Iraq20YearsOn: We’re happy to have international experts at the GIGA, taking stock of the scholarship on #Iraq’s modern history, #governance, #protest movements, and the politics of memory. For more: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-invasion-memory-politics-governance-protests

From Shivan Fazil ICYMI here is the session recording of #ACIraq panel discussion on the political identity of #youth, the plight of ethnoreligious #minorities and the challenges for prosperity & lasting #peace two decades after the 2003 US invasion of #Iraq #Iraq20YearsOn
https://www.youtube.com/live/vGbQl4cHHY4?feature=share @iraq

Domestic politics & the role of #CivilSociety in #Iraq🇮🇶: #GIGAForum with Nadje Al-Ali, Amb. Bernd Erbel, Christoph Reuter, Ula Abd Al Khalel Merie and #GIGA’s @eckart.

➡️ Register here for participation at the #GIGA or online, 29 March: https://giga-hamburg.de/en/events/giga-forum/iraq-20-invasion-domestic-politics-role-civil-society #Iraq20YearsOn