Marsin Alshamary

People walk past a poster of Pope Francis and Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, ahead of the Pope's planned visit to Iraq, in Najaf, Iraq, March 4, 2021. REUTERS/ Alaa Al-Marjani

The pope goes to Najaf: The person and the institution of Sistani

Marsin Alshamary

Thursday, March 4, 2021

The Middle East and the new US administration

9:00 AM - Friday Feb 26, 2021 1:00 PM EST

Protesters and militia fighters carry an Iraqi flag outside the U.S. Embassy during a protest to condemn air strikes on bases belonging to Hashd al-Shaabi (paramilitary forces), in Baghdad, Iraq January 1, 2020. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily

How Iraq’s economic crisis affects its traditional and non-traditional security sector

Marsin Alshamary

Friday, January 15, 2021

Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Around the halls: How leaders and publics around the world are reacting to events at the Capitol

Madiha Afzal, Ranj Alaaldin, Marsin Alshamary, Célia Belin, Charles T. Call, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Lindsey W. Ford, Ryan Hass, Kemal Kirişci, Suzanne Maloney, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Bruce Riedel, Natan Sachs, and Constanze Stelzenmüller

Friday, January 8, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi listens during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., August 20, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

Six months into his premiership, what has Mustafa al-Kadhimi done for Iraq?

Marsin Alshamary

Friday, November 13, 2020