On March 19th, six days after the schoolgirls were killed, Jordan's prime minister, Abd al-Karim Kabariti, submitted his resignation, which the king accepted with little grace, replacing him with Abd al-Salam Majali, a former prime minister who signed the 1994 treaty with Israel.

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Two Sunni Cabinet members -- Minister of Education Mohammed Tameem and Minister of Science and Technology Abdul Karim al-Samarrai -- have submitted their resignations in protest over the actions by security forces, their offices said.

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But hours later Education Minister Mohammed Tamim and Science and Technology Minister Abdul Karim al-Samarrai, both Sunnis, said they were resigning.

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Iraq's pavilion includes artists such as Ahmed Alsoudani and Halim al Karim, who grew up experiencing the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, economic sanctions and subsequent artistic isolation.

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