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		<title>Banking in Iraq – The Need for Change (Part II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order for Iraq’s banking system to develop, the first steps must not come from private enterprise but from government. The majority of Iraq’s banks are privately owned businesses. There are a few government owned enterprises. Rafidain, Iraq’s largest bank which was established over seventy years ago is owned by the state. Also, Trade Bank [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11355551&#038;post=1915&#038;subd=britishiraqiforum&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Banking in Iraq – The Need for Change</title>
		<link>http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/banking-in-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraqi Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1716</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Iraq “cash is king”. Whether you are buying a shirt or a house, chances are you will be doing so in cold, hard cash. Is this because of collective personal preference that Iraqis have? Unfortunately it is due to necessity as there are no alternatives. Iraq’s banking and financial sectors are not only lagging, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11355551&#038;post=1716&#038;subd=britishiraqiforum&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s the Stupidity, Stupid</title>
		<link>http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/its-the-stupidity-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali Al-Saffar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraqi Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in February, I wrote a post on the need for institutions in Iraq, and mentioned the Central Bank of Iraq as being one of the only independent, competent bodies in the country, largely thanks to the work of its governor, Sinan Shabibi. True to form, in an act of institutional self-flagellation, the Iraqi authorities [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11355551&#038;post=1891&#038;subd=britishiraqiforum&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq the banana republic</title>
		<link>http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/iraq-the-banana-republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali Latif</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraqi Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day my impressionable younger cousin asked me what a banana republic actually meant after I’d just used the phrase in describing Iraq’s current stage in development. The trouble is that I had a vague idea but no exact definition. Eager not to lose my much-coveted status as the fount of all-knowledge, I embarked [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11355551&#038;post=1840&#038;subd=britishiraqiforum&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shia mosque burnt in Brussels</title>
		<link>http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/shia-mosque-burnt-in-brussels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayder al-Khoei</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard about the Imam al-Ridha mosque in Brussels which was burnt last month by a Salafi terrorist. The arson attack led to the tragic death of the imam, Sheikh Abdullah Dadou, a father-of-four from Morocco. A delegation from London travelled to Brussels to pay their respects to his family and the community. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11355551&#038;post=1762&#038;subd=britishiraqiforum&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women, democracy and dictatorship</title>
		<link>http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/women-democracy-and-dictatorship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The electoral success of Islamic parties in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, has raised worries about policy and legislation on family and gender issues, this despite re-assuring noises from leading figures. Earlier electoral successes of Islamists in Iraq had brought about a disorderly mix of family policies and rule of disparate religious authorities, accompanied by much [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11355551&#038;post=1752&#038;subd=britishiraqiforum&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It is land and not just history that binds us</title>
		<link>http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/it-is-land-and-not-just-history-that-binds-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1736</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Few Iraqis recognize the organic connection between the mountains of Kurdistan and southern Iraq.  Many say that Iraq is an artificial state created by the british.  I submit to you that geology supersedes humanity.  Before the last Ice Age ended some 11 to 13 thousand years ago, the sea water level was some 450 feet [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11355551&#038;post=1736&#038;subd=britishiraqiforum&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do women make you uncomfortable?</title>
		<link>http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/do-women-make-you-uncomfortable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All right, I am new to this blog and new to Britain in general. However, I am not new to writing about Iraq. I wrote my master thesis on the recent amendment to the Iraqi Personal Status Law and before that I was writing about the issue of female genital mutilation in Iraq. The women’s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11355551&#038;post=1726&#038;subd=britishiraqiforum&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living in a topsy-turvy world</title>
		<link>http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/living-in-a-topsy-turvy-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali Al-Saffar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1712</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It really is a sign of just how skewed our priorities are when a couple of Twitter postings about the Prophet (PBUH) cause more of a stir than the killing of innocent people. Or, as a friend of mine Tweeted &#8220;killing an innocent in the name of my religion is 1000 times more offensive than [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11355551&#038;post=1712&#038;subd=britishiraqiforum&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Iraqis, institutions are stupid</title>
		<link>http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/to-iraqis-institutions-are-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali Latif</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1696</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ali Al-Saffar touched on a fundamental weakness of the Iraqi state at the moment, the lack of robust and independent institutions. Until they become a reality, the state will limp along vulnerable to political swings and sectarian agendas that have become a familiar fixture. Ali was doing so well until he added the throw away [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11355551&#038;post=1696&#038;subd=britishiraqiforum&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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