Khaled Salih
Political scientist. Emeritus VC University of Kurdistan-Hewlêr, former spokesman and advisor (KR). Love to write about contemporary issues in the Middle East with long-term views from the past (Why) and future possibilities (What-Ifs).
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The General Debate That Does Not Debate (opens the original)
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30 September 2026NoteThis is the third piece in the series.The first, A New Book—and a New Conjecture, named the book that method produced: The People Who Disappear at the Podium. The second, The Speech That Would Not Stay in Jordan How One UN Address Became a Conjecture About Kurdistan, set out the method.What follows is the Introduction.I did not
The Speech That Would Not Stay in Jordan (opens the original)
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29 September 2026NoteA few days ago I began with a king and a speech about attention.King Abdullah II asked the General Assembly to look. I did. Then I did the only thing the speech itself invited: I took the principles he invoked at the podium and let them travel home. They would not stay in Jordan.That is how a UN address became the opening of a book I had not planned to write. The first installment of that book is now here.PROLOGUE: The Speech That Would Not Stay in JordanHow One UN Address B
The People Who Disappear at the Podium (opens the original)
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28 September 2026<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1536" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wDyG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0458ede3-a745-46bd-bf5a-
The United Nations Has a Backspace Problem (opens the original)
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Who Protects the Backspace Key? (opens the original)
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