Iraq Leadership Fellows

  On March 15, 2023, three ILF alumni joined the Sulaimani Forum as speakers. The three alumni, Zahra Al-Sadr (Vice President of the General Committee of the National Hikma Movement), Samiya Shinghali (Sinjari Poet & Activist), and Shivan Fazil (Researcher, SIPRI), were featured on a televised panel entitled “20 Years Later: Reflections on Iraq’s Past,…

On October 31, 2022, the ILF Program celebrated the graduation of its fifth cohort in Erbil. The ceremony awarded graduation certificates to the 50 participants who completed the program in 2022. The event capped a year-long program that included leadership workshops in Erbil, Beirut and Sulaimani in addition to targeted coaching and mentorship throughout the…

On May 28, 2022, the ILF held a reunion to gather graduates from the previous cohorts of the program. The event, which was attended by ILF 80 alumni from all over Iraq, provided opportunities for graduates to exchange best practices and knowledge based on their community-level projects. The keynote session, which was titled “Leadership as…

This week, the application form for the fifth class of the Iraq Leadership Fellows (ILF) Program was launched via the ILF website. This ILF is implemented by the Institute for International and Regional Studies (IRIS) at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Syria/Iraq and DT Institute. The deadline…

On Friday, December 5, 2020, the Iraq Leadership Fellows program concluded the third training session for the 2019/2020 cohort. The session, held online to mitigate the risks of the Covid-19 pandemic, involved intensive training on Adaptive Leadership with the expert trainer Ghaleb Darabya. The workshop also included lectures on the structure of Iraq’s economy with…

On Friday, 18th of September 2020, the fellows gathered online to participate in the activities of the second workshop of Iraq Leadership Fellows 2019-2020. With continuous funding and support from KAS, DT Institute, and IRIS, the ILF initiative seeks to foster positive change in Iraq. In the four-day online workshop, fellows in the Political Candidate…

The Fellows of ILF 2019-2020 took part in an interactive online discussion titled “The Iraqi Constitution: Merely Amendments or Fundamental Changes”. Considering the increasing demands happening lately about amending or canceling some of the Iraqi Constitution articles, the Iraq Leadership Fellows program hosted on January 31, 2020, Dr. Mustafa AlNaji, the Senior Researcher in the…

The Iraq Leadership Fellows (ILF) program organized a closed online session that brought together the third cohort of the program with Dr. Maria Fantappé, Special Adviser for the Middle East and North Africa at the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue. The session, which was held on January 24, 2020, discussed the nature of relations between Iraq…

The Iraq Leadership Fellows (ILF) Program 2019-2020 was launched on Friday, November 22, 2019, starting with its first workshop. The four-day workshop, hosted at the American University of Iraq, Sulaymaniyah (AUIS), was attended by forty-eight fellows. The fellows were selected from four-hundred applicants, who applied for both tracks of the program: Social Activist Track and…