Iraqi citizens and their grievances need to be taken into account in this new attempt to change the Iraqi constitution.
Zaid al-Ali
Zaid Al-Ali is a Senior Programme Manager at International IDEA and is the author of Arab Constitutionalism: The Coming Revolution (Cambridge, 2021).
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