Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions
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Raeid JewadRaeid Jewad is a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge, England. He has worked for Schlumberger Oilfield Services as a field engineer in Western Siberia, Germany, Scotland, and Offshore Gulf of Mexico in the USA. Recent articlesReturn to Baghdad After long exile from Iraq, Raeid Jewad’s second return visit to Baghdad is an extraordinary mixture of hope and tragedy. Life after SaddamThe toxic shadow of the dictator has fallen across all twenty-five years of this young Iraqi exile’s life. From sinister visits to his nursery school to everyday chit chat, fear and paranoia infused his family’s life; now return and freedom beckon, but can the occupying forces deliver the democracy they have promised? |
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