Rend al-Rahim
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
Project Focus:
Social and Political Transformation in Iraq | Iraqi Elections
Middle East | Post-Conflict Peace and Stability
Phone: 202-429-3819
Email: ralrahim@usip.org
Languages: Arabic
Note: Journalists interested in interviewing Ms. al-Rahim should contact Lauren Sucher in the USIP public affairs office at 202.429.3822.
Writing from an Iraqi perspective, Rend al-Rahim’s project focuses on the social and political transformation in Iraq in 2003–2005 and on the pressures that affected the outcome of the 2005 elections.
Al-Rahim has served as Iraq’s representative to the United States and is founder and executive director of the Iraq Foundation, established in Washington, D.C., in 1991. In addition to teaching at the American University of Beirut, she has worked for the American Investment Company, Banque Arabe et Internationale d’Investissement in Bahrain, and Chemical Bank in Beirut and London.
Al-Rahim holds a B.A. from Cambridge University and a Maitrise en Lettres from the Sorbonne.
Publications:
- Iraq: Politics Unfrozen, Direction Still Unclear
USIPeace Briefing, January 2008
- Political Progress in Iraq During the Surge
Special Report, December 2007
- "A Dayton Process For Iraq," Washington Post, May 10, 2007.
- "Partition Is Not the Solution...," Washington Post, October 29, 2006.
- The Arab Shi’a: The Forgotten Muslims, with Graham E. Fuller (St. Martin’s Press, 1999).
- "The Iraqi Opposition
and the Sanctions Debate," Middle East Report (March–April 1995).
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