Latest writings and updates:

• Iraqi Politics and Change Politicians on the Eve of Iraq’s 2025 Parliamentary ElectionsNovember 10, 2025
  KEY TAKEAWAYS This article outlines key political and electoral developments in the Shia and change/madani political space ahead of Iraq’s November 11 parliamentary elections—these … Continue reading Iraqi Politics and Change Politicians on the Eve of Iraq’s 2025 Parliamentary Elections
• The Century Foundation, “Change” Politicians Flopped in Iraq’s Last Elections. They Could Still Be a Force for Reform.May 24, 2024
  [ Published here : https://bit.ly/3LRMb3Z ]
• Iraq’s Change politicians Face Difficult Odds in Upcoming Provincial Council ElectionsDecember 13, 2023
  Introduction On the eve of Iraq’s provincial council elections, analysis of Iraqi politics continues to focus on the role of the dominant factions competing … Continue reading Iraq’s Change politicians Face Difficult Odds in Upcoming Provincial Council Elections
• Middle East Institute, Iraq: A crisis of elite, consensus-based politics turns deadly: The Sadrists.September 15, 2022
  [ Published Here : https://www.mei.edu/publications/iraqs-crisis-elite-consensus-based-politics-turns-deadly-sadrists ]
• The Century Foundation, Under Pressure, Iraqi Activists Plot “Third Way.”September 13, 2022
  [ Published Here : https://tinyurl.com/57bzmean ]
• Middle East Institute, Iraq: A crisis of elite, consensus-based politics turns deadly: The Coordination FrameworkSeptember 13, 2022
  [ Published Here : http://tinyurl.com/5etum2w7 ]
• Middle East Institute, Iraq: A crisis of elite, consensus-based politics turns deadlySeptember 11, 2022
  [ Published Here : https://tinyurl.com/ew32pcz7 ]
• Middle East Institute, Waiting for the Bad to Get Worse: Lebanon in the Time of Corona.April 30, 2020
  [ Published Here : https://bit.ly/318u2sI ]
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Has the Coronavirus Crisis Permanently Silenced the Protests in Iraq?April 23, 2020
  [ Published Here : https://bit.ly/2ZZ58JC ]
• The Century Foundation, Tribal Justice in a Fragile Iraq.November 7, 2019
  [ Published Here : https://bit.ly/370EC5m ]
• World Politics Review, Defying Repression, Protesters Seek to Change Iraq’s Post-Saddam Political Order.November 6, 2019
  [ Published Here : https://bit.ly/2NnDOQk ]
• The Washington Post, Iraqis plan to continue protests Friday. Here’s what might happen.October 24, 2019
  [ Published Here : https://wapo.st/2qGnvoM ]
• Middle East Institute, Iraqi youth protesters: Who they are, what they want, and what’s next.October 14, 2019
  [ Published Here : https://bit.ly/2VFdcwR ]
• Aljumhuriya, Sexual Violence Against Males in Syria.March 11, 2019
  [ Published Here : https://bit.ly/2J4O9AA ]
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Falling Back on Clientelism and Intimidation.May 3, 2018
  [ Published Here : https://carnegie-mec.org/sada/76257 ]
• Middle East Eye, Lebanon’s elections: More empty promises, same old corrupt system.April 30, 2018
  [ Published Here : https://bit.ly/3bkryLo ]
• Informed Comment, As Lebanon prepares to vote, Amnesty for the disenfranchised provokes Fierce Debate.April 17, 2018
  [ Published Here : https://bit.ly/2JUi3nv ]
• Rise Foundation, Mosul and Tel Afar Context Analysis.December 31, 2017
  [ Published Here : http://bit.ly/2CzJSwU ]
• Human Rights Watch, I Just Wanted to be Treated like a Person.January 12, 2016
  [ Published Here : http://bit.ly/1ZQpgGJ ]
• House of Commons. International Development Committee, Oral Evidence: Syrian Refugee Crisis, HC 463.October 29, 2015
  [ Published Here : http://bit.ly/2aeJbvj ]
• Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights Hearing on The Syrian Refugee Crisis, Statement for the Record of HIAS and the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, ‘The Syrian Refugee Crisis’  (co-authored IRAP’s portion of the statement).January 7, 2014
  [ Published Here : https://hias.org/wp-content/uploads/hias_and_irap_statement_for_sjc_hearing_on_syrian_refugee_crisis_-_1.7.14.pdf ]
• Foreign Policy, Out and Down in Syria’s Civil War.December 4, 2013
  [ Published Here : https://bit.ly/3dmFXJB ]