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  • Nasreen Barwari, the Harvard-educated minister of public works in Ayad Allawi's interim government, led the delegation of secular women to Dr. Jaafari's office last week.

    Archive 2005-04-01 JDsg 2005

  • Nasreen Barwari, the Harvard-educated minister of public works in Ayad Allawi's interim government, led the delegation of secular women to Dr. Jaafari's office last week.

    "What is Acceptable to You is Not Acceptable to Us" JDsg 2005

  • Two arch-rivals, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of the State of Law Party and former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of the al-Iraqiya party, won the majority of parliamentary seats (89 and 91, respectively, out of a total of 325), yet refused to work together to form a coalition government.

    Matt Kane: Iraqnophobia: The Political Tornado of American and Iranian Influence in Iraq's Parliament Matt Kane 2010

  • Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite bloc has tried to squeeze out election front-runner Ayad Allawi — a secular Shiite who was heavily backed by Sunnis — by forging an alliance last week with another religious Shiite coalition.

    Blasts kill 5 in Baghdad neighborhood 2010

  • Two arch-rivals, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of the State of Law Party and former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of the al-Iraqiya party, won the majority of parliamentary seats (89 and 91, respectively, out of a total of 325), yet refused to work together to form a coalition government.

    Matt Kane: Iraqnophobia: The Political Tornado of American and Iranian Influence in Iraq's Parliament Matt Kane 2010

  • Two arch-rivals, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of the State of Law Party and former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of the al-Iraqiya party, won the majority of parliamentary seats (89 and 91, respectively, out of a total of 325), yet refused to work together to form a coalition government.

    Matt Kane: Iraqnophobia: The Political Tornado of American and Iranian Influence in Iraq's Parliament Matt Kane 2010

  • Mr. Hashemi's political bloc Iraqiya, which is headed by Mr. Maliki's main rival Ayad Allawi, held an urgent meeting in Baghdad to consider its moves.

    Iraq Crisis Looms With Arrest Order Sam Dagher 2011

  • The head of Iraqiya, Ayad Allawi, skipped the meeting, which had been billed as a preparatory one for a broader national conference, sending instead a representative who read a letter listing his demands to return to government, an Iraqiya spokesman said.

    Iraqi Forces Battle Insurgents Sam Dagher 2012

  • In Baghdad, Ayad Allawi, the Shiite former prime minister who leads a mainly Sunni contingent within the government, met with his Iraqiya group to discuss ways to ease Mr. Maliki out of his role, while Kurdish leaders met in Erbil, the capital of the semi-independent Kurdish region, with the same goal.

    Iraq Political Leaders Seeking Maliki's Ouster Sam Dagher 2012

  • Iraqiya narrowly won the most seats in last year's election, but its leader Ayad Allawi was outmanoeuvred by al-Maliki, who kept the premier's post after cobbling together support from other Shia parties.

    Iraq's Sunni leader goes on run to evade arrest 2011

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