Marsin Alshamary
Marsin Alshamary was a post-doctoral research fellow with the Foreign Policy program. Her research focuses on Iraqi politics, Iraqi-U.S. relations, Shiite political activism, as well as civil society and social movements in the broader Middle East. While at Brookings, she is working on her book, which examines the role of Shi'a clerics in Iraqi protest movements across the last century. Alshamary is also a nonresident fellow at the Institute of Regional & International Studies at the American University of Iraq - Sulaimani.