Search results for "Iraq"
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‘The Iraq War Momentum’ in the Struggle on the Powers of the US Congress
2019
How parliaments and legislatures participate in war-making has raised interest among researchers from different disciplines, including constitutional law and political science. While war powers are usually considered to be included in the field of the executive branch, parliaments have played an increasingly relevant role as more democratic decision-making in both normal and exceptional times has gained prominence. The comparative aspect to examine war powers between parliaments or between the branches of government is often adopted to describe the authority and legitimacy of these powers. The US Congress is considered to have strong war powers on paper compared to parliaments in other libe…
From the banks of Upper Tigris River to the Zagros Highlands. The Tübingen Eastern Ḫabur Archaeological Survey. Trial season 2013
2016
After decades of strife and unrest, during which Northern Iraq remained closed to the outside world, a new era of international scientific enterprise has begun in this region thanks to the recent democratic and civil upturn and its subsequent economic resurgence. In the last few years, together with the restoration and refurbishment of historical monuments, there has also been a spread of new archaeological undertakings in the form of surveys and excavations, the quality and quantity of which is fully shown in the present volume. A Tübingen University research project was initiated in the northernmost part of Iraqi-Kurdistan, in the province of Dohuk. The research area is located at the foo…
Investigating Jubaniyah. A Late Chalcolithic site on the Upper Tigris River, Iraqi Kurdistan. Preliminary report
2021
Jubaniyah is a blufftop settlement of 4 hectares set on a terrace overlooking the River Tigris in northern Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan) demonstrating a significant and almost exclusive occupation during the Late Chalcolithic period (ca. 4800-3000 BC). Besides an agricultural-pastoral orientation, the site presumably also functioned as a central hub in riverine communication and exchange with the hinterland during most of this long period. Set within the catchment area of the Mosul Dam reservoir, Jubaniyah is also one among more than 150 flooded sites which periodically resurface due to the reservoir’s annual or cyclical water fluctuation, thus intermittingly revealing the spolia of their past. Th…
Institutionalization of party systems. A focus on Kurdistan Region of Iraq party system (1991/2016)
2019
ABSTRACT (SPANISH) Este estudio es un análisis cualitativo profundo de la naturaleza de la institucionalización del sistema de partidos en la región de Kurdistán de Iraq. Si bien el desarrollo de sistemas de partidos robustos a menudo se considera crucial para las democracias industriales, los sistemas de partidos en las regiones de Kurdistán, como muchas otras democracias nacientes, se han desarrollado con bastante lentitud. En cambio, la política partidista se caracteriza por una elevada tasa de volatilidad electoral, sólidas relaciones cliente-patrocinador, muchas fragmentaciones, nepotismo y falta de vínculos partidarios entre los electorados y las élites políticas. Esta tesis examina p…
Pots and places in the Late Chalcolithic period. A view from the Eastern Ḫabur Region
2019
This paper attempts to contextualise the preliminary results of a survey (EHAS) and excavation (KUGAMID) projects recently undertaken by a team of the University of Tübingen in the uppermost region of Iraqi Kurdistan as far as the Late Chalcolithic period is concerned. Settlement patterns and land use, stratigraphic sequences and pottery assemblages are considered here in order to shed light on the dynamics of the emergence of social complexity and the establishment of proto-urban trajectories along the river banks, riverine plains, foothills and mountain valleys of the foothills of Zagros. Preliminary results suggest that the process of urbanisation in this area seems to be connected with …
Mutation ofPOC1Bin a Severe Syndromic Retinal Ciliopathy
2014
We describe a consanguineous Iraqi family with Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), Joubert syndrome (JBTS), and polycystic kidney disease (PKD). Targeted next-generation sequencing for excluding mutations in known LCA and JBTS genes, homozygosity mapping, and whole-exome sequencing identified a homozygous missense variant, c.317G>C (p.Arg106Pro), in POC1B, a gene essential for ciliogenesis, basal body, and centrosome integrity. In silico modeling suggested a requirement of p.Arg106 for the formation of the third WD40 repeat and a protein interaction interface. In human and mouse retina, POC1B localized to the basal body and centriole adjacent to the connecting cilium of photoreceptors and in …
Report on the first season of German-Kurdish excavations at Muqable in 2015
2017
In 2015, a new excavation project entitled “Kurdish-German Archaeological Mission in Dohuk” (KUGAMID) was launched. It is organized as a joint project between the University of Tübingen and the Department of Antiquities of Dohuk and is jointly directed by Peter Pfälzner (Tübingen) and Hassan Ahmad Qasim (Dohuk). Three sites were selected for excavation: Bassetki, Muqable I and Muqable III. The following report will summarize the results of the first season of excavations at the two neighbouring mounds of Muqable I and Muqable III, located approximately 5 km southeast of Bassetki and 23 km west of Dohuk in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in Iraq. The first season of excavations at Muqable…
L'Infedele / Ali Bader
2019
L'Infedele è la storia di Fatima-Sophie, una giovane donna che vive a Bruxelles ma proviene da un imprecisato villaggio arabo situato ai bordi del deserto, dove la vita è segnata da numerosi episodi di sopraffazione maschilista e di fanatismo religioso. A Bruxelles inizia la vita "europea" della protagonista, che incontra Adrian, un giovane scandinavo, con alle spalle un passato assai misterioso. Alla fine l'incontro tra Sophie e Adrian finirà con l'essere una sorta di resa dei conti non solo di carattere personale, ma anche delle rispettive culture.
Between Symphony and Novel: 'Ali Badr's Haris al-Tabg (The Tobacco Keeper)
2013
Over the course of the last decades scholars have shown a growing interest in the link between narrative and music, and “Musico-literary” is currently an emergent discipline among comparatists and literary critics. Concerning Arab narrative, it is possible to identify the influence of music on some contemporary fictional works. In this study I will try to analyse Ḥāris al-tabġ (The Tobacco Keeper, 2008), a novel written by the Iraqi novelist ‘Alī Badr. The novel retraces the history of Iraq since the 40’s through the biography of an outstanding violinist who represents only a facet of a triple personality. The novel is deeply influenced by Fernando Pessoa’s poetics, and is conceived and str…
Il declino delle destinazioni turistiche
2015
Il saggio, partendo dal noto ciclo di vita delle destinazioni turistiche elaborato da Richard Butler nel 1980, riflette sul destino turistico e sulle potenzialità di territori ancora oggi percepiti come pericolosi (Iraq, Sri Lanka, Vietnam). The essay, starting from the well-known life cycle of tourist destinations elaborated by Richard Butler in 1980, reflects on the tourist destiny and on the potential of territories still today perceived as dangerous (Iraq, Sri Lanka, Vietnam).