Sadr and Us: The Lost Partnership ‘Ali Wajih, originally published by Nas News 03 Feb 2020 In this moment, with the continuing tensions between the Blue Hats (a formation belonging to the Sadrist trend) and the other protesters, the leader of the trend – Muqtada al-Sadr – has closed down all spaces for cooperation between
Below is a link to my latest for Washington Post’s The Monkey Cage on protests in south Iraq. The article can be found here!
Below is a link to a blog piece I wrote for LSE’s Middle East Centre on the protests which swept Iraq’s southern provinces in July 2018. Link to LSE MEC blog article.
Below is a quick translation of the statement put out by the ICP with respect to the announcement of an alliance between Muqtada al-Sadr and Fatih’s Hadi al-‘Ameri: Statement of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) concerning the announcement of the alliance between Sa’iroun and Fatih. Adhering to the national project for change and reform.
Link to my article for the Monkey Cage which draws some theoretical insights from the Sadrist-ICP electoral coalition. It looks at the question of societal weakness in Iraq within the broader framework of the Arab Spring.
Link to blog post I wrote for LSE’s Middle East Centre that looks at the wider implications of the Sadrist-Communist alliance for Iraq secular civil society.
Below is a link to an interview I did with Joel Wing for his blog Musings on Iraq. The interview presents my reflections on the victory of the Sa’iroun list which brought together the Sadrists and the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) in an unlikely alliance. This is just a snapshot of a broader research project
Below is another translation of an interview by Iraqi journalist Methaq al-Fayyadh, this time with female Iraqi MP Shirouk al-Abayachi. The interview deals with her role in the Civil Democratic Alliance (CDA), an attempt to bring civil trend actors together behind a unified political platform to contest parliamentary elections. A dialogue with MP Shirouk
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