Authors

Fanar Haddad

 

Fanar Haddad is Senior Research Fellow in the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Sectarianism in Iraq: Antagonistic Visions of Unity.

ARTICLES BY Fanar Haddad

  • Competing Victimhoods in a Sectarian Landscape

    Competing Victimhoods in a Sectarian Landscape

    None but the hopelessly naive or the woefully ill-informed can deny the relevance of sectarian (here meaning Sunni and Shiʿi) identities in the contemporary Middle East, particularly in the Mashriq. Equally self-evident is the centrality of victimhood in how these identities are perceived by the..

  • 'Shi'a Forces', 'Iraqi Army', and the Perils of Sect-Coding

    'Shi'a Forces', 'Iraqi Army', and the Perils of Sect-Coding

    Last week Twitter was the site of a few rhetorical skirmishes between Professor Juan Cole and several Iraq-watchers—myself included, albeit very briefly. The exchanges were occasioned by Cole’s use of the phrase “Shiʿa forces” to refer to the various non-Kurdish Iraqi formations (the Iraqi army ..