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Dec 19, 2023 | 
blogs.lse.ac.uk | Taif Alkhudary
In Zubair, a city south of Basra, a group of women led by an Afro-Iraqi activist worked with a local NGO on a campaign to tackle the piles of rubbish that littered the area’s streets. At first, they approached the municipality asking them to provide them with proper waste disposal facilities. However, the municipality advised that this was the responsibility of the Basra Oil Company (BOC), who in turn informed the women that they could not afford to support their project.
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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.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Sajad Jiyad |Maria Fantappie |Taif Alkhudary |Marsin Alshamary
Maria Fantappie is the Iraq senior advisor at the International Crisis Group and served as a senior advisor on security sector reform for the European Union mission to Iraq.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Thanassis Cambanis |Taif Alkhudary |Sajad Jiyad |Marsin Alshamary
On this episode of the Order From Ashes podcast “Shia Power” series, Taif Alkhudary explains how the October 2019 protests formed a popular response to years of thwarted democratization. The Tishreen protests movement, Alkhudary argues, represents an indigenous democratization movement that is resisting the putative democracy put in place after the U.S. invasion.
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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.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
wp.me | Taif Alkhudary
In early August, the Iraqi Communications and Media Commission issued a directive banning the use of the term ‘gender’ in all public communications. It also recommended the replacement of the word ‘homosexuality’ with ‘sexual deviance’. The decision came on the back of an organised disinformation campaign in Iraqi media outlets largely owned or controlled by the dominant post-2003 political parties.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
blogs.lse.ac.uk | Taif Alkhudary
In early August, the Iraqi Communications and Media Commission issued a directive banning the use of the term ‘gender’ in all public communications. It also recommended the replacement of the word ‘homosexuality’ with ‘sexual deviance’. The decision came on the back of an organised disinformation campaign in Iraqi media outlets largely owned or controlled by the dominant post-2003 political parties.
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Sep 9, 2023 | 
msn.com | Taif Alkhudary
In early August, the Iraqi Culture and Media Commission issued a directive banning the use of the term “gender” in all public communications. It also recommended the replacement of the word “homosexuality” with “sexual deviance”. The decision came on the back of an organised disinformation campaign in Iraqi media outlets largely owned or controlled by the dominant post-2003 political parties.
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Sep 9, 2023 | 
msn.com | Taif Alkhudary
In early August, the Iraqi Culture and Media Commission issued a directive banning the use of the term “gender” in all public communications. It also recommended the replacement of the word “homosexuality” with “sexual deviance”. The decision came on the back of an organised disinformation campaign in Iraqi media outlets largely owned or controlled by the dominant post-2003 political parties.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
tandfonline.com | Taif Alkhudary
AbstractAbstractThis article uses Margaret Somers’ and Charles Tilly’s work on discursive approaches to identity to argue that failures in Iraq’s sectarian power-sharing system, Al Muhasasa Al Ta’ifia, have led to the transformation of identity in the country. This is demonstrated by the emergence of a unitary nationalist protest movement, which has called for a civic state, as captured by the idea of Mawatana.
