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As Iraq's troubles continue, Kurdish region building a $2 billion resort

Khalid-Al-Ansary, Nayla Razzouk

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Iraqi Kurdistan has been a peaceful region in spite of larger overall trouble, and is now going through a tourism boom.

Emaar Properties PJSC of Dubai and Kurdish company Faruk Group Holding will soon sign a contract valued at more than $2 billion to develop a resort in Iraq’s oil-rich Kurdish region in the north, a government official said. The Dukan tourist city project will be built in Sulaymaniyah near the border with Iran, Herish Muharam Muhamad, chairman of Kurdistan Regional Government’s investment board, said in an inter

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