Waria Salihi

president of The Salihi Group

Waria Salihi appears in the following:

In Kurdistan: No Friends But the Mountains...and the U.S.

Thursday, August 05, 2010

All week long, we've been focusing on Iraq, where American forces are drawing down this month. We've heard mixed opinions from Iraqis and analysts who say Iraq still lacks stability, infrastructure and a functioning government. Now, we turn to Kurdistan, where the view is altogether different from the rest of Iraq. For Kurds, the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 was largely positive. For decades Kurds had suffered repression and abuse under Saddam Hussein's regime.

But what happens when the U.S. pulls out?

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Iraq, Seven Years After the Invasion

Thursday, March 18, 2010

It has been nearly seven years since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Today, as the country awaits results from the March 7 national election, we check in with Iraqis about the state of their country. 

It has been nearly seven years since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Today, as the country awaits election results from March 7 primary,

we are checking in with Iraqis about how they view the state of their country. 

 

Lubna Naji (lub-nah NAH- jee) joins us this morning. SHE is a TWENTY FOUR YEAR OLD medical student at Baghdad Medical School.

 

Waria Salihi (pron: WAH-ree-ah SAH-lee-hee) is President of The Salihi Group, a company involved in Iraqi reconstruction.

 

And Adel Darwish is a British journalist and author specializing in Middle East politics. He joins us from London.

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