الدينار والثقة والسلطة: هل تنذر ضغوط الدولار بتحول سياسي في العراق؟
تستدعي ضغوط سعر الصرف في العراق ذاكرة انهيار الدينار خلال التسعينيات، لكن اختلاف بنية الاقتصاد والسلطة يجعل المقارنة بحاجة إلى تدقيق. الخطر السياسي لا يكمن في ارتفاع الدولار وحده، بل في تحوّله إلى حلقة ضمن أزمة معيشة وعدالة وثقة بالمؤسسات.
7 October 2026
Incomplete Justice: How Are Turkmen Child Survivors of ISIS Being Denied Their Rights for the Third Time?
Incomplete Justice: Why Do Turkmen Child Survivors of ISIS Remain Outside the Survivors Law? By Hussein Zain al-Abidin | Independent Researcher — Minority Rights in Iraq | husseinmonitor.com Yazidi MP Khalid Sido announced today, Saturday, 22 …
22 August 2026
The Cost of Political Representation in Iraq
The Cost of Political Representation in Iraq: Examining the Gap Between Parliament and Provincial Councils By Hussein Zain al-Abidin | Independent Researcher — Minority Rights in Iraq | husseinmonitor.com Amid the continuing liquidity crisis facing the Iraqi state…
11 August 2026
Will the Coming Cabinet Vote Include a Turkmen Share?
Nine Portfolios Still Open: Will the Coming Cabinet Vote Include a Turkmen Share? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com Nearly three months after Iraq's parliament …
9 August 2026
Nine ministries remain vacant in al-Zaidi’s government. Is a ministerial share for the Turkmen community even on the negotiating table?
Nine portfolios remain vacant: will the next vote include a share for the Turkmen community? By Hussein Zain al-Abidin | Independent researcher — Minority rights in Iraq | husseinmonitor.com Nearly three months after Iraq’s Council of Representatives granted partial confidence to…
9 August 2026
Five Years of the Yazidi Survivors Law
Five Years of the Yazidi Survivors Law: The Case for Substantive Amendments By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com On March 1, 2021, Iraq's parliament passed the Yaz…
25 July 2026
Five Years Since the Yazidi Survivors Law
Five Years Since the Yazidi Survivors Law: Time for Substantive Amendments By Hussein Zain al-Abidin | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com On March 1, 2021, the Iraqi Council of Representatives passed the Yazidi Survivors Law…
25 July 2026
Iraq Before the UN Human Rights Council: Promises Without Accountability
Iraq Before the UN Human Rights Council: Promises Without Accountability By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com In January 2025, Iraq appeared before the United Nati…
12 June 2026
Kirkuk's First Turkmen Governor in a Century
Kirkuk's First Turkmen Governor in a Century: A Historic Shift, a Fragile Agreement, and an Unfinished Reckoning On April 16, 2026, the Kirkuk Provincial Council voted to elect Mohammed Samaan Agha — president …
9 June 2026
Iraq's New Government and the Turkmen Question: A Community of Millions With No Seat at the Table
JUNE 1, 2026 · HUSSEIN MONITOR Iraq's New Government and the Turkmen Question: A Community of Millions With No Seat at the Table Iraq's Turkmen community — the country's third largest ethnic group, with a population esti…
1 June 2026From the archive
UNITAD Closes Its Doors: Six Years of Work, Unfinished Business, and an Uncertain Future for Accountability
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024 · HUSSEIN MONITOR UNITAD Closes Its Doors: Six Years of Work, Unfinished Business, and an Uncertain Future for Accountability Today, September 17, 2024, the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote…
17 September 2024
Bir Alou Antar: What Iraq's Newest Mass Grave Site Is Telling Us — and What It Cannot Yet Say
AUGUST 28, 2024 · HUSSEIN MONITOR Bir Alou Antar: What Iraq's Newest Mass Grave Site Is Telling Us — and What It Cannot Yet Say Between May and August 2024, UNITAD and Iraqi forensic teams excavated a natural sinkhole ne…
27 August 2024
Iraq's Minorities and the Constitution: Rights on Paper, Reality on the Ground
Iraq's Minorities and the Constitution: Rights on Paper, Reality on the Ground By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com "The laws guarantee rights, but they are not ap…
15 July 2024
Ten Years Since the Fall of Tal Afar: A Community Displaced, Women Still Missing, and Justice Still Waiting
JUNE 15, 2024 · HUSSEIN MONITOR Ten Years Since the Fall of Tal Afar: A Community Displaced, Women Still Missing, and Justice Still Waiting In June 2014, ISIS seized Tal Afar and erased a community in days. Ten years lat…
14 June 2024
68 Mass Graves, 10 Years, and Still No Justice: Iraq's Unfinished Reckoning with ISIS
68 Mass Graves, 10 Years, and Still No Justice: Iraq's Unfinished Reckoning with ISIS Between 2018 and 2024, UNITAD and Iraqi authorities jointly excavated 68 mass grave sites across Iraq. Each site tells a story of syst…
1 June 2024
Europe Can Prosecute ISIS — And It Should: The Case for Universal Jurisdiction
Europe Can Prosecute ISIS — And It Should: The Case for Universal Jurisdiction While Iraq's judiciary struggles with the scale and complexity of ISIS crimes, European courts have a legal tool that could change the equati…
31 May 2024
UNITAD Is Closing: Who Protects the Witnesses Now?
UNITAD Is Closing: Who Protects the Witnesses Now? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com On September 17, 2024, the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Acc…
10 April 2024
Transitional Justice in Iraq: Illusion or Reality?
Transitional Justice in Iraq: Illusion or Reality? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com Iraq has had 23 amnesties between 1975 and 2016. It has had dozens of prose…
22 January 2024
Kirkuk After the Agreement: Has the Conflict Really Ended?
Kirkuk After the Agreement: Has the Conflict Really Ended? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com Kirkuk has been called "an ethnic powder keg waiting to explode." I…
5 November 2023
Sinjar: Ten Years After the Genocide — What Has Changed?
Sinjar: Ten Years After the Genocide — What Has Changed? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com On August 3, 2014, ISIS launched a coordinated attack on Sinjar. With…
3 October 2023
Born in Captivity: The Children ISIS Left Behind and the State That Refuses to Recognize Them
Born in Captivity: The Children ISIS Left Behind and the State That Refuses to Recognize Them By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com She was 24 years old, living in …
18 May 2023
Iraq's IDP Camps: Open Prisons for a Million People
Iraq's IDP Camps: Open Prisons for a Million People By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com Nearly a decade after ISIS swept through northern Iraq, approximately 1.2 …
12 February 2023
The Shabak and Mandaeans: Iraq's Forgotten Minorities
The Shabak and Mandaeans: Iraq's Forgotten Minorities By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com When the world talks about Iraq's minorities, it usually means Christian…
20 October 2022
Tal Afar After Liberation: A City Without a Future?
Tal Afar After Liberation: A City Without a Future? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com When Iraqi forces declared Tal Afar fully liberated from ISIS on September…
14 July 2022
Yazidi Women Who Escaped ISIS: Between Trauma and Social Rejection
Yazidi Women Who Escaped ISIS: Between Trauma and Social Rejection By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com They survived enslavement. They escaped. They came home. An…
8 April 2022
Iraq's Amnesty Law
Iraq's Amnesty Law: Justice for the Wrongly Detained — or a Path to Freedom for ISIS Perpetrators? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com Iraq's General Amnesty Law …
15 January 2022