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Hadani Ditmars

Hadani Ditmars is the author of Dancing in the No Fly Zone: a Woman's Journey Through Iraq. A former editor at New Internationalist and past contributor to CBC’s Dispatches, she has been reporting from the Middle East for over two decades. Her next book, Between Two Rivers, is a political travelogue of Iraqi heritage sites.

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    Governments making power grabs, repressing dissent while world focuses on COVID-19

    How far will the erosion of rights and freedoms be permitted to go in these strange new times, writes Hadani Ditmars.
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    Social distancing is important. But what if you live in an apartment tower with shared spaces?

    There is little guidance about protocols for mitigating community spread in multi-family residences, writes Hadani Ditmars.
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    Foreign leaders might want to dial back the Iran protest schadenfreude

    It's rather tone-deaf for Trump and Netanyahu, in particular, to cheerlead for these protests against poverty, corruption, religious authoritarianism and billions spent on foreign wars, while ignoring the same criticisms of their own governance at home.
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    Sectarian divisions exploited by ISIS still endure in Iraq

    Human Rights Watch has documented cases of torture and abuse, and the head of the Iraqi government's Shia Endowment, Alaa al-Mousawi, has called for non-Muslims to convert to Islam or be killed. So far, Prime Minister Abadi has offered little more than lip service.
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