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Marsin Alshamary: Iraq's Political Crisis

Published: Aug. 23, 2022, 7:41 p.m.

This week on Babel, Jon speaks with Marsin Alshamary, a research fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard\u2019s Belfer Center. We talk about the ongoing crisis happening outside of Iraq\u2019s parliament, why the current intra-Shi\u2019a conflict is unique and how it echoes similar crises before, and where Iran and the United States stand. Then, Jon continues the conversation with Will Todman and Lubna Yousef about what a lighter U.S touch in Iraq might look like moving forward.\n\n\nMarsin Alshamary ,\xa0"The Sadrist Gamble: A Make-or-Break Moment for Iraq?," Italian Institute for International and Political Studies, August 4, 2022.\n\nMarsin Alshamary, \u201cThe protester paradox: Why do anti-Islamist activists look toward clerical leadership?\u201d Brookings, April 2022.\xa0\n\nJane Arraf and Jon Alterman, " Not Your Mother's Iraq," CSIS, March 1, 2022.\n\nTranscript, "Iraq's Political Crisis," CSIS, August 23, 2022.