Ali Al-Mawlawi

Oct 30, 2023 | tcf.org | Ali Al-Mawlawi |Marsin Alshamary |Renad Mansour |Sajad Jiyad

Renad Mansour is a senior research fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House and the project director of its Iraq Initiative.

Oct 26, 2023 | tcf.org | Maria Fantappie |Taif Alkhudary |Thanassis Cambanis |Ali Al-Mawlawi

A year has passed since Mohammed Shia al-Sudani was sworn in as prime minister of Iraq, and began a term focused on bringing stability to the country. This was no mean task: Sudani was leading a fragile coalition government formed after a yearlong deadlock that involved challenges to election results, protests, and violent clashes. The first anniversary of Sudani’s premiership is a good opportunity to evaluate his progress—and to attempt some predictions about the year ahead.

Oct 23, 2023 | tcf.org | Thanassis Cambanis |Ali Al-Mawlawi |Sam Heller |Ben Robin-D’Cruz

On this episode of the Order From Ashes podcast, Ali Al-Mawlawi traces the long history of anti-Shia prejudice in Iraq. That prejudice, he argues, distorts contemporary debates over whether Shia factions are undermining the state when they compete for power. This episode of Order From Ashes is the fourth and final episode in “Shia Power,” a series about the transformation of Shia politics in Iraq, and what Iraq’s experience teaches us about the role of religion in politics everywhere.

Oct 10, 2023 | tcf.org | Thanassis Cambanis |Fanar Haddad |Taif Alkhudary |Ali Al-Mawlawi

Taif Alkhudary is a research officer at the London School of Economics Middle East Centre. She previously worked for various nongovernmental organizations, where she conducted research on women’s and girls’ rights and strategic litigation on violations of civil and political rights in the Gulf and Iraq.

Sep 27, 2023 | tcf.org | Thanassis Cambanis |Sajad Jiyad |Renad Mansour |Ali Al-Mawlawi

Fanar Haddad is assistant professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. He previously served as senior advisor on international affairs to the prime minister of Iraq. His most recent book is Understanding “Sectarianism”: Sunni-Shi'a Relations in the Modern Arab World (Oxford: Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2020).