Iraq Forum

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• Comments and questions to: frontlineworld@flworld.org

Topics of debate

• What does political meddling in the trial say about post-election politics in Iraq?
• How has the resignation of Judge Rizgar Amin affected the trial?
• What are your impressions of Saddam's trial to date?

Meet the Panel

• Michael Scharf,
  International Law Professor
• 24 Steps to Liberty,
  Iraqi Reporter and Blogger
• Phebe Marr,
  Iraq Historian
• Nehal Bhuta,
  Human Rights Watch
• Iraq the Model,
  Iraqi blogger
• Faleh Jabar,
  Iraq Center for Strategic Studies

Faleh Jabar

Iraqi scholar and head of the Iraq Center for Strategic Studies in Baghdad

Faleh Jabar is an expert on tribalism and politics in Iraq, and has written about Saddam Hussein in his book The Shi'ite Movement in Iraq. He has also written and edited several books in Arabic, including State and Civil Society in Iraq and The Impossible Democracy: The Case of Iraq.