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Dlawer Ala'Aldeen

Dlawer Ala'Aldeen is an Iraqi Kurd. Brought up in Irbil, he studied medicine in Baghdad and moved to Britain in 1984. He is currently a professor of Clinical Microbiology at Nottingham University.

He has lobbied for Kurdish and Iraqi human rights, and for a global ban on chemical and biological weapons. He has published extensively on these issues and has assisted British charities to help the return of displaced Kurds to their homes and rebuild their destroyed villages.

Professor Ala'Aldeen is a founder and ex-chairman of the Kurdish Scientific and Medical Association, and Editor of its scientific journal, Zanin. He is currently focused on helping Iraqi and Kurdish Universities for capacity building and establishing academic links with UK's leading Universities.

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The Kurds and the ISG: losing friends, losing the war

The implementation of the Baker report would be a betrayal of Iraq's Kurds and a defeat for the United States itself, says Dlawer Ala'Aldeen.

Kurdistan beyond Iraq

The political pressures in Iraq are pushing the Kurds towards independence, says Dlawer Ala'Aldeen.