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Omar Fadhil

Summer Associate
Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Omar Fadhil Al-Nidawi, a summer associate at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, is a Baghdad-trained dentist and a graduate student of international affairs at Columbia University in New York City. He is the co-author of the blog Iraq the Model, a two time winner of the Weblog Awards. Until late 2007 Omar was writing on the war in Iraq from Baghdad, Basrah, and other locations in Iraq. Now based in the US, he continues to write about Iraq, the war on terror, and issues in the Middle East. Omar’s work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, and he is a member of the Opinion Journal Federation. In March 2007, PC World magazine chose Omar and his brother and co-blogger Mohammed among "the 50 most important people on the web".

 
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Analysis: Sadr movement, Mahdi Army shrink under pressure, The Long War Journal (07/03/2008)
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