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Ali Mamouri

Ali Mamouri was the Associate Editor of Iraq at Al-Monitor.

Yezidi monk Baba Chawish poses in front of an entrance to the Lalish
temple some 50 km north from Iraqi city of Mosul, May 11, 2003. The
Yezidi religion, seen by its followers as the original Kurdish faith,
is believed to date back several thousand years and blends ideas from
sources as diverse as Zoroastrianism, Islam and Christianity.
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Iraqi Kurdistan Must Ensure Minority Rights

Ali Mamouri

A Syrian refugee watches a television broadcast of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaking in Damascus, in their container at the Al-Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 6, 2013. Assad made his first public appearance in months on Sunday, calling for a "full national mobilisation" to fight against rebels he described as al Qaeda terrorists. REUTERS/Majed Jaber (JORDAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3C5EE

Sectarianism Dominates Mideast Media Coverage of Syria, Bahrain

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Protesters demand that the pensions of parliamentarians be cancelled during a demonstration in Baghdad, August 31, 2013. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST) - RTX132E8

Iraqi Secularists Struggle To Establish Political Presence

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Iraqis carry a poster of top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani during a demonstration in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad June 13, 2007. Dozens of residents took to the streets in Najaf protesting the latest bomb attack in Samarra's Golden Mosque Shi'ite shrine. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish (IRAQ) - RTR1QQY3

Clerics Play Crucial Role In Iraq’s Sectarian Conflict

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Women hold posters of Shi'ite Iranian cleric Ayatollah Khomeini to commemorate the Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day and to show support for the Palestinians, during a rally in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) south of Baghdad, October 20, 2006. REUTERS/Atef Hassan (IRAQ) - RTR1IIUAi

Iraq’s Identity Crisis in Symbols

Ali Mamouri

Iraq's Baha'is Continue to Face Persecution, Social Exclusion

Ali Mamouri

Protesters demand that the pensions of parliamentarians be cancelled during a demonstration in Najaf, 160km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, August 31, 2013. REUTERS/Haider Ala (IRAQ - Tags - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST) - RTX132E

Religious Leaders in Najaf Support Iraqi Protesters

Ali Mamouri

Women mourn during the funeral of a victim who was killed during bombings in Baghdad August 29, 2013. A series of car bombings and other attacks across Baghdad on Wednesday killed 86 people and wounded 263, police and medical sources said, extending the worst wave of sectarian bloodshed in Iraq for at least five years. REUTERS/Ahmed Malik (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST) - RTX12ZSS

Iraqi Secular Trend Responds To Religious Extremism

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A boy who survived from what activists say is a gas attack cries as he takes shelter inside a mosque in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus August 21, 2013. Syrian activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of launching a gas attack that killed nearly 500 people on Wednesday, in what would, if confirmed, be by far the worst reported use of chemical arms in the two-year-old civil war. The Syrian armed forces strongly denied using chemical weapons. Syrian state television said the accusations were fa

Reports of Syria Chemical Attack Split Iraqis

Ali Mamouri

An Iraqi man carries the body of his son, who was killed by a car bomb attack, during a funeral in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, August 15, 2013. A series of car bombs in Baghdad killed at least 33 people and wounded more than 100 on Thursday, police sources said. The Interior Ministry put the death toll far lower, saying only three people were killed and 44 wounded in the violence. REUTERS/Haider Ala (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTX12MX2

Tensions Mount Between Iraqi Government, Najaf

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Iraq's Assyrian Catholic residents hold a memorial Mass marking the first anniversary of victims killed in a militant attack on the Our Lady of Salvation Church in 2010, at the Church in Baghdad October 31, 2011. Fifty-two hostages and police were killed during an attack on the church on October 31, 2010. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY ANNIVERSARY POLITICS) - RTR2TGJ6

Assyrians Discuss Possible State in Iraq

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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads the morning Eid prayers at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque in central Tehran November 4, 2005. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi - RTR1A4VI

Khamenei’s Controversial Fatwas

Ali Mamouri