About this episode

The episode discusses Iraq's new prime minister and the ongoing challenges the country faces both domestically and regionally.

Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the Iraq expert Renad Mansour. With a new prime minister in place Iraq still faces severe challenges both domestically and regionally. A country that had successfully avoided being pulled into Israel's war against Palestine has since the February 28 attack by the US and Israel been dragged into a conflict that remains unresolved and threatens its hard won stability. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.

People in this episode

Host: William Law

Guest: Renad Mansour

Topics covered

• Iraq politics
• Middle East conflict
• US involvement
• regional stability
• new prime minister

Keywords

• Iraq
• prime minister
• Renad Mansour
• US
• Israel
• Palestine
• conflict
• stability

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Iraq, Israel, Palestine

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