Guide to Specialists

Rend al-Rahim
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
September 1, 2008 – August 30, 2009

Project Focus:
The Iraqi Forum for National Dialogue

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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.

Former representative of Iraq to the United States and founder and executive director of the Iraq Foundation Rend al Rahim’s project focuses on creating and managing an Iraqi Forum for National Dialogue (IFND). This forum will serve as a neutral space inside Iraq to sustain and expand the national dialogue initiated by the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue (IISD) and the Helsinki process. In addition to her work for the Iraq Foundation, al Rahim teaches at the American University of Beirut. Previously 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
• 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).

Available on usip.org:

• Iraq's Political Situation
  Congressional Testimony, January 25, 2007