Break a cycle of misery
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:20 am
A few days later, they returned to their native Erbil, the commercial hub of Iraqi Kurdistan, on an Iraqi repatriation flight. They are already trying to forge a new path towards Europe.
“There is no future for my son in Iraq,” Azhi’s father Ali Rasool, 26, told CNN from his home in Erbil. “Trying to go to Europe is for Azhi. I need a future for my child.
Everywhere in the Middle East and North Africa, we talk about emigration. Although the guns have largely fallen silent in most of the region’s conflict zones, much of the misery has not ended. The violence that once phone number library engulfed four countries – Syria, Libya, Yemen and Iraq – has given way to an economic disaster that extends far beyond their borders. Many regional economies have been rocked by the combined effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, influxes of refugees and political instability.
Government corruption in the MENA region is widely seen as the main culprit, in addition to geopolitical turmoil. A recent survey found that a third of the region’s 200 million young Arabs are considering emigrating. In 2020, that figure was even higher, with almost half of all young Arabs.
The Syrian regime is widely accused of repeatedly committing war crimes and crimes against humanity over the past 10 years of the country’s war, including attacks on the civilian population with chemical weapons and bombing. blind of populated areas under rebel control with conventional ammunition. Tens of thousands of political prisoners have died in Assad’s prisons after being subjected to extreme torture and ill-treatment.
“There is no future for my son in Iraq,” Azhi’s father Ali Rasool, 26, told CNN from his home in Erbil. “Trying to go to Europe is for Azhi. I need a future for my child.
Everywhere in the Middle East and North Africa, we talk about emigration. Although the guns have largely fallen silent in most of the region’s conflict zones, much of the misery has not ended. The violence that once phone number library engulfed four countries – Syria, Libya, Yemen and Iraq – has given way to an economic disaster that extends far beyond their borders. Many regional economies have been rocked by the combined effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, influxes of refugees and political instability.
Government corruption in the MENA region is widely seen as the main culprit, in addition to geopolitical turmoil. A recent survey found that a third of the region’s 200 million young Arabs are considering emigrating. In 2020, that figure was even higher, with almost half of all young Arabs.
The Syrian regime is widely accused of repeatedly committing war crimes and crimes against humanity over the past 10 years of the country’s war, including attacks on the civilian population with chemical weapons and bombing. blind of populated areas under rebel control with conventional ammunition. Tens of thousands of political prisoners have died in Assad’s prisons after being subjected to extreme torture and ill-treatment.