Shia Rule Is a Reality in Iraq. “Shia Politics” Needs a New Definition.

Fanar Haddad is assistant professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. He previously served as senior advisor on international affairs to the prime minister of Iraq. His most recent book is Understanding “Sectarianism”: Sunni-Shi'a Relations in the Modern Arab World (Oxford: Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2020).