Article for The Washington Post: Anger in Iraq’s southern provinces has been building for months, now it’s boiling over
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!
As Protests Sweep Iraq, are the Country’s Political Elites Running out of Options? Blog article for LSE’s MEC
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.
Translation: Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) Statement on Alliance with Fatih (13 June 2018)
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 Washington Post (Monkey Cage) article: “Why many failed to predict the leftist-Islamist alliance that won Iraq’s 2018 elections”
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.
Blog for LSE Middle East Centre: The Sadrist–Communist Alliance: Implications for Iraq’s Secular Politics
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.
The Sadrist-Communist Alliance And Iraq’s 2018 Elections: Interview for Musings on Iraq
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
Translation: A dialogue with MP Shirouk al-Abayachi on the Civil Democratic Alliance (CDA) – Methaq al-Fayyadh (2014)
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
Protected: Translation: Sadrists have dinner at Jassim al-Hilfi’s house. Inside story of the meetings which concluded the Sadrist-civil trend alliance.
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Protected: Translation: ‘al-Asa’ib Enter the Game!’ A Sadrist account of the opening phase of the 2015 protests
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Translation: Jassim Al-Helfi, ‘The Social Movement in Iraq’
Translation starts here: Jassim Al-Helfi, ‘The Social Movement in Iraq: Diverse approaches towards a single goal’, al-thaqafa al-jadida, 380/2, 2016. Introduction The broad protests, which erupted on the 25th February 2011, have continued, via various ups and downs, until they took on the form of a wide popular momentum from the 31st July 2015. The
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