Aleksandra Zittle's guest appearances

Aleksandra Zittle

Middle East PolicyCast

Geoffrey Batt

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Norman Ornstein

David Makovsky

Michael Oren

Michael McFaul

Jared Kushner

Ben Taub

Matthew Levitt

Bruce Hoffman

Amanda Sloat

Shelly Culbertson

Dennis Ross

Michael Knights

Ambassador Nathan

OwlTail

From February 12 to 14, representatives of governments, NGOs, and private businesses from around the world met in Kuwait for a conference that was intended to raise $85 billion for rebuilding destroyed areas and resettling displaced Iraqis in formerly ISIS-controlled territory. In the end, the Kuwait conference raised $30 billion. Was this a failure for Iraqi reconstruction, or the start of a longer process? Is Baghdad equipped to handle and spend even that lower amount of reconstruction funding? Near East PolicyCast: Conversations on Middle East issues from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Iraqi Reconstruction with Aleksandra Zittle, Shelly Culbertson, and Geoffrey Batt