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Mustafa Al-Dabbagh

Mustafa Al-Dabbagh is an independent writer. Being a British-Iraqi, he has a special interest in Iraq, and the wider middle east, with a particular interest in human rights. He has also worked with Muslim youth in Britain and writes about the struggles and contributions of Muslims in the UK.

 

Items by Mustafa Al-Dabbagh

  • The world must act now to save Mosul from being another Aleppo

    The past week in Iraq has been marred by the spat between the government in Baghdad and its counterpart in Ankara. With Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi insisting that Turkey should withdraw its troops from Iraq and for them to play no part in the battle for Mosul, he even...

  • What next for the Sunnis of Iraq?

    The forgotten victims in Iraq are the Sunni Arabs. Their marginalisation and concurrent victimisation by the Shia-dominated Iraqi government over the past ten years has led many to become disenchanted towards the state and harbour ill feelings towards those running the country. There were demonstrations and sit-ins in many of...

  • The forgotten victims in Iraq

    In the early hours of 10 June last year, ISIS launched a surprise attack on the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. What followed left many people shocked. Two divisions of the Iraqi army, numbering approximately 30,000 trained and armed men, simply laid down their weapons and fled the...

  • Iraq is worse than ever before, so what was the invasion and war all for?

    In March 2003 the US-led invasion of my country, Iraq, began. I remember sitting in front of the TV watching as the bombs rained down on Baghdad; my parents wept silent tears of heartache. I was too young to understand the reason for their tears. Now, though, I understand...