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Friday, May 16, 2014

Iraq’s Ja’fari (Shiite) Personal Status Law: a Threat to Women and National Unity

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Most Iraqi observers agree that the proposed Ja’fari Personal Status Law that was initiated by the Basra based al-Fadila (Virtue) Par...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

The Iraqi elections: 10 reasons why Nuri al-Maliki will win the battle but ultimately lose the war

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Most analysts believe that Nuri al-Maliki will win a third term as prime minister in this week's parliamentary elections.  How did Mal...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Making Sense of the Arab Spring 6: The End of Islamism?

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Predicting political change has not been one of political scientists' strong points.  Few foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union and...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

The University of Kufa conference on "Religious Pluralism and Tolerance in the Dialogue of Civilizations"

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Recently I had the privilege to attend a conference, “Religious Pluralism and Tolerance in the Dialogue of Civilizations” ( al-Ta’addu...
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Eric Davis is Executive Director, MA Program in Political Science - Concentration in United Nations and Global Policy Studies, Professor of Political Science and the former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. He is author of CHALLENGING COLONIALISM: BANK MISR AND EGYPTIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1920-1941 (Princeton University Press, 1983; Institute for Arab Development, Beirut, 1986, and Dar al-Sharook, Cairo, 2009); STATECRAFT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: OIL, HISTORICAL MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE (University Presses of Florida, 1993); MEMORIES OF STATE: POLITICS, HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MODERN IRAQ (University of California Press, 2005; Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2008; and the forthcoming, TAKING DEMOCRACY SERIOUSLY IN IRAQ (Cambridge University Press). Currently, he is writing a book on the Islamic State and the changing modalities of terrorism in the Middle East. He can be contacted at davis@polisci.rutgers.edu and @NewMidEast
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