Date: 5th November, 2015 Venue: Rotana Tanya Gilli, Former Member of Iraqi Parliament (Chair) Brendan O’Leary, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA Lukman Faily, Iraqi Ambassador to the United States Farhad Alaaldin, Political Advisor to the President, Iraq The Iraqi Constitution, ratified by a referendum in 2005 after a series of difficult negotiations between Shias, […]

Date: 5th November, 2015 Venue: Rotana Jane Arraf, Journalist, (Chair) John Jenkin, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Bahrain Ken Pollack, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute, USA Alireza Miryousefi, Director for Middle East Studies, IPIS, Iran October 19, 2015 was the “Adoption Day” for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the JCPOA or Iran Agreement) between Iran and […]

Date: 27th October 2016 MERI Forum 2016 In this panel: Cengiz Çandar, Journalist and Writer, Turkey Walter Posch, National Defence Academy, Austria David Romano, Thomas G. Strong Professor of Middle East Politics, Missouri State University, USA Irene Costantini, Research Fellow, MERI (Chair) This is a summary of the panel discussion, please find the full video […]

Date: 27th October 2016 MERI Forum 2016 In this panel: Kenneth Pollack, The Brookings Institute, USA Clarisse Pasztory, Delegation of the European Union to Iraq Max Hoffman, Center for American Progress, USA Tanya Gilly, Former Member of Iraqi Parliament (Chair) This is a summary of the panel discussion, please find the full video of the […]

Date: 5th November, 2015 Venue: Rotana Dlawer Ala’Aldeen, President of MERI (Chair) Feridun Sinirlioğlu, 44th Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey Nechirvan Barzani, Prime Minister, KRG Turkey-KRG relations have evolved significantly since 2008. The two partners have increased their cooperation on a number of issues, including trade, energy and security. The bulk of Turkey’s total trade value with […]

In this panel Morten Bøås, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway Steven Blockmans, Centre for European Policy Studies, Belgium Tine Gade, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway Athanasios Manis, Middle East Research Institute (Chair) This is a summary of the panel discussion, please find the full video of the debates and Q&A above. This panel […]

Date:4th November, 2015 Venue: Rotana Dlawer Ala’Aldeen, President of MERI (Chair) Salim Al Jabouri, Speaker of Parliament, Iraq Barham Salih, Former Prime Minister, KRG Rule of law and institutional reforms are the only way forward for a well-functioning federal state in Iraq that can ensure the rights, security, and economic prosperity of its citizens. The […]

Date: 26th October 2016 MERI Forum 2016 In this panel: Lise Grande, UN’s Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General Falah Mustafa, Minister, Head of Department of Foreign Affairs, KRG Osama Al-Gharizi, United States Institute for Peace (USIP), USA Mohammed Salman, National Reconciliation Committee in Prime Minister’s Office Otmar Oehring, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Germany (Chair) […]

  ‘If we get the economy right, we will have a more harmonious political system,’ stated Qubad Talabani, Deputy Prime Minister of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in his visit to the Middle East Research Institute to discuss the Kurdistan Region’s economy on Wednesday, November 25th. Mr. Talabani discussed the economic challenges facing the Kurdistan Region that make […]

Date: 26th October 2016 MERI Forum 2016 Nechirvan Barzani, Prime Minister of Kurdistan Region of Iraq Kenneth Pollack, Brookings Institute, USA This is a summary of the panel discussion, please find the full video of the debates and Q&A above. This session was designed as a question and answer session with Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani […]