Guide to Specialists

Amatzia Baram
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
In Residence: July 2003 - June 2004, July 1997 - June 1998

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Project Focus
State-Mosque Relations in Iraq, 1968–2003

Foreign Languages: Hebrew, Arabic

Background
Amatzia Baram is professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is a prolific author and editor of several books and dozens of scholarly articles on Saddam Hussein and Iraqi politics and history. He testified about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction in September 2002 before the House Committee on Government Reform, and has consulted widely about Iraq with senior U.S. administration officials. He has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, Georgetown University, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, St. Antony's College (Oxford), and Hebrew University's School for Advanced Studies. Baram directed the Jewish-Arab Center and the Gustav Heinemann Middle East Institute at the University of Haifa from 1999 to 2002. He received his Ph.D. from the department of the history of Islamic countries at Hebrew University.

Available on usip.org:

• Who Are the Insurgents? Sunni Arab Rebels in Iraq
  Special Report, April 2005
• Iraq: Transition to What?
  Current Issues Briefing, June 2004 (Audio)
• The Iraqi Shi'i Community: Between Sistani, Muqtada, the IGC, and the CPA
  Congressional Testimony, April 2004
  
• State-Mosque Relations in Iraq, 1968-2004
  Senior Fellow Report, March 2004 (Summary & Audio)
• Sectarian Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Iraq
  Current Issues Briefing, February 2004 (Summary & Audio)
• Religious Politics in Iraq - Part II
  Current Issues Briefing, December 2003 (Summary & Audio)
• Between Impediment and Advantage: Saddam's Iraq
  Special Report, June 1998
• What Does Saddam Hussein Want?
  PeaceWatch, December 1997
• The Crisis in Iraq
  Event Summary, November 20, 1997