Tuesday, February 12, 2013
هل للتسامح متسع بين العراقيين؟
Sunday, October 23, 2011
My Dream
Monday, May 30, 2011
الستراتيجية الوطنية لمكافحة الفساد .. منهاج عمل ام نوايا؟
رصد العائدات .. الى أين؟
Revenue Monitoring... Toward Which Future?
Thursday, October 21, 2010
منتدى الخريجين .. مبادرة الجامعة اللبنانية الفرنسية
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
المشهد العراقي .. والدروس المستفادة
مررت على قصيدة الكبير الجواهري "أي طرطرا ، تطرطري"، التي نظمها عام 1946، والتي يدون فيها مرحلة حرجة من الاحتقان السياسي آنذاك. حينما تقرأ القصيدة، اضافة الى اغلب قصائدة التي تؤرخ المرحلة أشعر وكاننا لازلنا نعيش نفس المرحلة. فأين الدروس المستفادة؟
على من نضع اللوم؟ الفرد؟ المجتمع؟ الثقافة؟ السياسة؟ الاقتصاد؟
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
المسافرون العراقيون يتعرضون للاستجواب من قبل المخابرات الاردنية
اصبح من اللافت للنظر مسالة المضايقات والمعاملة السئية التي يتعرض لها المسافرين العراقيين الى الاردن رغم حصولهم على تاشيرة الزيارة (الفيزا) مسبقا من السلطات الاردنية، حيث يسأل المسافرين عن القابهم وعن العشيرة والطائفة التي ينتمون اليها، وغالبا ما يكون ذلك بشكل استفزازي ولا ينم عن اية لياقة غالبا مع المسافرين العرب الشيعة او الاكراد.
ويحدث وبشكل يومي حجز جوازات قسم من المسافرين، ويطلب منهم مراجعة مديرية الاستخبارات المركزية الاردنية، حيث يخضعوا للاستجواب بدون اي وجه قانوني، وقد حدث ذلك معي شخصياً في زيارتي الاخيرة الى عمان. وقد حاولت استشارة بعض الاصدقاء المقيمين في عمان عن مدى جدوى الاتصال بالسفارة العراقية في عمان، فكان جواب الجميع بانهم لا يكترثون كثيرا لمثل هذه الشكاوى. حتى ان بعضاً من المسافرين واغلبهم ممن يزوروا عمّان لغرض صفقات تجارية او اعمال، والقسم الاخر لغرض التدريب وخصوصا من اعضاء منظمات المجتمع المدني العراقية.
وحينما رجعت الى العراق، ارسلت الخبر والتفاصيل لبعض الصحف ووكالات الانباء، ولكن يظهر انه لم يحضى هو الاخر بالاهتمام، وهم في غمرة تغطية اخبار اكثر اهمية عن المفخخات وعن الساسة الذين يصمون الاذان بخلافاتهم واتهاماتهم كل للاخر.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
In Iraq, the electricity is a mess
Can you imagine yourself living without electricity? It might be a good idea for an interesting movie or a reality show. However, what’s most interesting is the real movie that we live here in Iraq, where electricity is available to us 2-4 hours a day. It is not an exaggeration, it is the truth. Government institutes, private businesses and the general population find it necessary to use generators to achieve our daily activities although many people cannot use their small generator for a long period; they are built for short-term use.
The electricity's generator is located inside this luxurious room! ,
one wire for one house, it is new technology.
The problem started to escalate after the fall of Saddam’s regime in 2003. After the fall, the open market policy that had been allowed in Iraq took a dive and thus led to the import of huge quantities of domestic utilities as well as a variety of equipment that is needed by small businesses. All of that caused a raise of the power load on the national power network. In return, the local power stations were over loaded and became unable to provide the required electricity.
The second reason involves the now notorious terrorists. They found that the power towers were an easy target to attack. They usually select the areas that is located out of control or guarding, especially at the borders of provinces, it is enough to plant a little of explosions under one of the power transportation towers, it will spontaneously be collapsed because of its high height and heavy weight. With this easy target, they attempted to suppress the democratic change process.
In order for you to fully grasp the life that we live, you need to turn off your lights and in the hottest part of the day leave the air conditioner off. There is no need for you to try to use the microwave, toaster or coffee pot because they don’t work here with out the electricity.
If you plan visiting Iraq, don’t make plans the luxury of electricity, it can’t be found here.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Bombed apartment
We found a commercial building that consisted of two apartments to rent. We selected one that was located away from the main street in order to avoid the explosions that often happened by suicide cars. Our team of four engineers decided not to hang the company banner for display, and kept this location private for our own safety. We met other teams we worked with in a public places to keep our secret.
The other apartment was rented by someone else a week after we moved in. The tenant of that apartment hadn't seen just one time while he was bringing some materials to decorate his apartment. The stores owners in the ground floor saw him using a new model of pick up car to bring the bags of materials. Then the apartment still closed and nobody came back to start up the work.
Days Later, In 27th July 2006, I was doing some works before going to the office when I received a call from my sister, who was working in the same district, telling me not to come to that area, she had been hearing explosions constantly for about an hour. I tried calling my colleagues in order to avoid going to that area but all of them were unavailable.
The terrorist group who claimed responsibility for the bombings stated that their purpose was to punish the population of the area (mainly Shiia) for their cooperation with the US forces and the new government.
Two days after, we started again cleaning and reconstructing our office in the same destroyed building, it became more secure as long as there was no place to rent. The funny matter was that; while we didn't hurt by that huge explosion, I had injured by broken glass while we were cleaning our office, I moved to hospital and got three sticks in my arm, it left a sign on my arm to make me remember that accident for ever.
Monday, November 5, 2007
A Refugee

I decided to give up working in red zones in Baghdad after 8 of my friends had been killed and other 8 seriously injured , when gunmen raided one of our company's offices. The victims were three women, a boy about 15 year-old was working as service labor as well as four engineers. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/international/middleeast/30iraqcnd.html?pagewanted=print
I lately understood why the manger of the company was absent at the moment of the accident, and why the owner of the company sent for his sisters who were working in that office to travel outside Iraq one week before the accident. Obviously, they were received a threat, and of course they were not ready to lose their interests because of a threat that may have not be serious.
Finally, I decided to be refugee in Kurdistan region waiting for getting an opportunity to be refugee outside Iraq.



