Iraqi Elections 2010: Voting Under Fire

March 7th, 2010Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq)

Sunday’s election for a new National Assembly has been a bloody start. At least 24 people have died in various attacks. Several rockets, grenades and bombs hit Baghdad as early as the morning hours on election day. The death toll is rising steadily.

Most attacks were directed against Baghdad, but there have been reports of violence elsewhere in the country. At least four people were killed and eight were wounded in an explosion in a residential [...]

What Will It Take To Cut A Deal?

March 10th, 2010Nissim Dahan (Israel/USA)

President Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu may soon embark on yet another round of peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis. Each leader, in his own way, faces daunting challenges, in part because he must answer to [...]

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Journée Internationale des Femmes

March 8th, 2010Jahanshah Rashidian (Iran/Germany)

Sur la proposition de l’Internationale Socialiste en 1910, la journée internationale des femmes (le 8 mars) a été célébrée pour la première fois dans beaucoup de pays industriels. Elle demandait le droit de vote, le droit [...]

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Iraqi elections 2010: Iraqi voters demonstrate in the UK

March 6th, 2010Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq)

Many Iraqi people today who had been living in European countries since they war in Iraq and went to vote in the Iraqi elections of 2010 where face with the fact they can not vote ,as [...]

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Iraqi election 2010: voting outside of Iraq

March 5th, 2010Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq)

Since the morning and polling operations started for displaced Iraqis located outside of Iraq, after the first phase of the elections ended Thursday, Which included the employees of [...]

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I want to be famous

March 5th, 2010Alyaa Gad (Egypt/The Netherlands)

If you want to know the plot of this post, you will have to read every word of it.

You know there are sometimes things that you hear or see and [...]

Iraqi elections initial monitoring report 2010

March 4th, 2010Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq)

As a rule, Iraq’s post-Saddam elections have tended to magnify pre-existing negative trends. The parliamentary polls to be held on 7 March are no exception. The focus on electoral politics is good, no doubt, but the [...]

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