How to pronounce “maliki” in English

And the reason it's so difficult is that Prime Minister Maliki basically reneged on every commitment

In December 2006, then-Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki briskly rejected characterization of the conflict as a civil war and accused Kofi Annan

So the Kurds and a lot of the Sunni tribal leaders are, basically, of the mind that you can't trust Maliki.

and what he discovered, he says, is that they had been distributing a leaflet critical of the Prime Minister Maliki.