Ministry of Culture organized a think-tank on the political changes taking place in the region
On: Sun 12/18/2011 8:41
Dohuk / Abdul Khaliq Dosky
hosted the conference hall in the province of Dohuk, political, intellectual forum held by the Ministry of Cultural and Youth in the Kurdistan region in coordination with the University of Dohuk on the changes taking place in the Arab world and its impact on Iraq and the Kurdistan region in particular.
Kawa Mahmoud, Minister of Culture, Youth in the Kurdistan region, who attended the forum said the changes undergone by the Arab states are the major changes which affect more or less the province of Kurdistan, he added, "These changes Tatheralina so we are interested in studying was our interaction with these events positively and we started as a center of the democratic process "
and on the sensitivity of the Kurdistan region of these movements and revolutions, "I have warned us of the issue of reproduction of these experiences to Kurdistan because it is a variety of experiences which vary from state to state also that the conditions in the province of Kurdistan is not like the situation in these countries and the system in the region based on elections and voting "
For his part, said Dr. Esmat Mohamed Khaled president of the University of Dohuk in a speech at the opening of this conference that the region has seen radical changes in systems that were prevalent in some countries such as Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria and said that "the winds of change has occurred to many of the systems near and around Iraq so it was her reactions and different effects and this forum will address the effects that have occurred in reality the political "
to that between Dr. Abdul Wahab Al Khaled, a member of the organizing committee of the forum, the participants had numbered more than 110 researchers, politicians and intellectuals from different Arab countries, adding, "Forum covers three main themes is the question of democracy in the Middle East and North Africa and the second issue of coexistence of religions and ethnic groups in the region and the third effect of the people and the masses and their role in current events "
and Khaled said the aim behind organizing this event is "a culture of democracy and the question of change in the region,"
Lebanese intellectual Karim Marwa, who participated in this event with a lecture which he discussed the issue of a fall from what he called symbols of tyranny happen to the saying "when I say that some of the symbols of tyranny has fallen and some in the road, this means that the forces of democracy and liberalism and secularism to move to build the future of these new communities and be a key partner which is not enough to say we are against the Islamists, while the Islamists take a majority of seats, so we have to be Democrats correctly and we have to prove to our people and convince them that we will provide them what they want "
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