From Beirut to Baghdad: The Regional Impact of the Syrian Conflict (English)

On April 14, 2014, the Brookings Doha Center (BDC) hosted a policy discussion with Joseph Bahout, Professor at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris; Abdulrazzaq Jedi, Professor at the University of Baghdad; and Charles Lister, Visiting Fellow at the BDC. Salman Shaikh, Director of the BDC, moderated the discussion. The speakers reflected on the current state of the conflict in Syria, as well as the regional impact of the conflict, particularly in Iraq and Lebanon.

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The Iraqi guy doesn't sounds like academic and he talks in every fanatic tone, I am a kurdish from north and the generation after 1990 doesn't consider themselves as Iraqi first, second all kurd are not Sunni we have divers religion background. third everything is not black and white "if you are not with me you are against me", there is a truth that both central government in Iraq and People in west of Iraq hold an extreme contradict ideology and they might play proxy war in that region, but we all know most of the southern Iraq are tribals and the education system in Iraq has to be changed in order to assimilate this tribes and different views into each other to establish new southern Iraq, North (kurdistan) is immune in any of this issues