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Iraq 20 Years Later with Marsin Alshamary and Hamzeh Hadad

Published: March 21, 2023, 9:25 p.m.

In a special episode of Babel to mark the 20th\xa0anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war, Jon sits down with two Iraqi guests to talk about the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion.\xa0Dr. Marsin Alshamary\xa0is a research fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard's Belfer Center, and\xa0Hamzeh Hadad\xa0is an adjunct fellow with the Center for New American Security. Alshamary and Hadad talk about how the war in Iraq has\xa0shaped both Iraqi politics and their own lives,\xa0their experiences as members of the\xa0diaspora who travel extensively to Iraq, the lingering effects of the Saddam Hussein era, and the future of Iraqi politics. Then, Jon continues the conversation with Will Todman and Lubna Yousef, discussing the different ways in which diaspora communities interact with both their home countries and their host countries.\xa0\n\nMarsin Alshamary and Hamzeh Hadad, \u201cThe Collective Neglect of Southern Iraq: Missed Opportunities for Development and Good Governance,\u201d International Peacekeeping, February 16, 2023.\xa0\xa0\n\nHamzeh Hadad, \u201cClimate of opportunity: Iraq\u2019s new government as regional conciliator,\u201d European\xa0Council on Foreign Relations, November 4, 2022.\xa0\xa0\n\nMarsin Alshamary, \u201cAuthoritarian Nostalgia Among Iraqi Youth,\u201d War on the Rocks, July 25, 2018.\xa0\xa0\n\nTranscript, "Iraq 20 Years Later," CSIS, March 21, 2023.