Understanding Sectarianism successfully accomplishes its important purpose of replacing
the unhelpful term 'Sectarianism'with more restrictive and descriptive terms like 'sectarian …

" The Islamic State is a byproduct of the 2003 American intervention in Iraq and the
subsequent American departure in 2011. At its peak in late 2014, the group held more than …

Since the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the challenges of sectarianism
and militarism have weighed heavily on the women of Iraq. In this book, Zahra Ali …

Informed by a decoloniality lens and referencing motifs such as coloniality of power,
knowledge, and being, this theoretical article analyses and problematises conflict, and …

This introduction highlights the need for studies exploring the formation of coalitions in North
Africa and the Middle East by privileging processual, relational and intersectional …

Standing inside a t-wall factory in Erbil in the summer of 2021, I was struck by the fact that,
nearly twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq, these military walls were still in production …

How do aspects of identities previously marginal to everyday life become crystallized as the
basis for sorting out who lives, who dies, and the degree to which diverse coexistence is …

This is a comprehensive survey of minorities in the Middle East with a special focus on the
post Arab Spring era. Minority communities in the Middle East are the most susceptible to …

This article theorizes the role of the elite in a sectarianized political system with a rentier
economy. It argues that by virtue of the sectarian and ethnic representation of the sub …

This paper analyses five main slogans and chants performed during the first 3 months of
Iraq's 2019 Tishreen [October] protests. It aims to trace their origin to examine the …