Guide to Specialists

Faleh A. Jabar
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
In Residence: October 2003 - July 2004

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Project Focus
The Day After: Prospects for Post-Ba'ath Democratization in Iraq

Foreign Languages: Arabic, German

Background
Faleh Jabar is a research fellow at the School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London. Formerly a lecturer at London Metropolitan University, since 1994 he has directed the Iraqi Cultural Forum Research Group, at Birbeck College. Jabar earlier served as director of research and publications at the Centre of Social Studies in the Arab World, based in Nicosia and Beirut (1983–90). He is author of The Shi'ite Movement in Iraq and editor of other volumes on tribes and power in the Middle East and on social movements in Iraq. He has written and edited several books in Arabic, including State and Civil Society in Iraq and The Impossible Democracy: The Case of Iraq. Over the past decade he has published articles on Iraq and regional issues in journals such as the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), Le Monde Diplomatique, Financial Times, and The Times. He has also presented papers at venues including the Middle East Institute, Harvard University, Oxford University, the School of Oriental and African Studies, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Royal Institute for International Relations. Jabar received his Ph.D. in sociology from Birkbeck College, University of London.

Available on usip.org

• Iraq: Transition to What?
  Event, June 2004 (Audio)
• Post-conflict Iraq: A Race for Stability, Reconstruction, and Legitimacy
  Special Report, May 2004
• Formative Forces in the Development of the Modern Iraqi State
  Fellow Project Summary, April 2004 (Summary & Audio)
• On Track in Iraq?
  Peace Watch, December 2003
• Religious Politics in Iraq, Part II
  Event, December 2003 (Audio)
• Religious Politics in Iraq, Part I
  Event, May 2003 (Audio)