Marsin Alshamary - The Century Foundation

Marsin Alshamary is an assistant professor at Boston University and a nonresident fellow at Brookings Institution.

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Shia Clerics in Iraq Haven’t Lost Their Authority

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Shia Power Comes of Age: The Transformation of Islamist Politics in Iraq, 2003–2023

TALL AFAR, IRAQ - SEPTEMBER 14: Iraqi soldiers detain suspected insurgents in the al-Qadisiyah neighborhood after house-to-house searches September 14, 2005 in Tall Afar, Iraq. Tall Afar is located approximately 93 miles east of the Syrian border and about 260 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo by Akram Saleh/Getty Images)

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Roundtable: Generation Iraq: The Iraq War’s Legacy of Harm

Muslim religious man in Karbala with Shrine of Imam Hussein in background

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Shia Clerics in Iraq Haven’t Lost Their Authority

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A Summer of Danger for Iraq—With Little Hope for Change