Since 2013, the wars in Iraq and Syria have revived the persecution of Christians of the Middle East as an issue in Europe, in the
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The Return of the State and Inter-Militia Competition in Northern Iraq
In the wake of the end of the war against Islamic State (IS), the Iraqi state redeployed in the north of Iraq in October 2017.
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Actors and Territories in Northern Iraq
These maps were designed to illustrate Arthur Quesnay and Robin Beaumont’s article, The Return of the State and Intermilitia Competition in Northern Iraq
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The Political Stakes of the Battle for Mosul
The battle for Mosul is the final episode of the recapture of Iraq. It is the last act of a divided political and military landscape
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The strategy of Jabhat Al-Nusra / Jabhat Fath Al-Sham in regarding the truces in Syria
Since the beginning of 2016, the international community has been striving to ensure that the local and national truces in Syria are respected. Jabhat al-Nusra
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Iraq from the Ground
Go further, and read out full length article: Iraq from the Ground: Two Tears after the Fall of Mosul
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Shiite nationalism? Sistani, Present in Absence
This is an extended version of an article previously published, in French and in Arabic, by Orient XXI. It does not take into account recent
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The Iraqi Crisis: A Return on Social Trajectories
The turn currently happening in Iraq can be analysed as a social crisis in which the bonds between individuals are weakening and recomposing under the
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The Sunni Revolution and the Outburst of Community Divisions in Iraq
This analysis is based on fieldwork conducted in Northern Iraq ovef the course of Fall 2014, with the support of the WAFAW program of the
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Sectarian Strategies, National Settings and the War Economy in Syria and Iraq
The meaning of the various dynamics at work in today’s Iraq and Syria lies in their interactions. This poses a twofold challenge to the cartographers:
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Sectarian Strategies, National Settings and the War Economy in Syria and Iraq
This article intends only, in line with its short length, to offer areas of reflection and avenues for further exploration. In order to understand the
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Komalah Mountains
“Photographing them in black and white was not an aesthetic choice” GASPARD THIEKARO Since 1991, the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan has enjoyed relative stability,
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Iraqi Christians
GASPARD THIEKARO Kidnapping, hostage taking, executions, bombings have punctuated the lives of Christians in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Their only solution is
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