SEPADPod with Fanar Haddad

Richardson Institute

On this special episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Fanar Haddad, Senior Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore. Fanar is the author of Sectarianism in Iraq: Antagonistic Visions of Unity (London/New York: Hurst & Co./Columbia University Press, 2011) and Understanding 'Sectarianism': Sunni-Shi'a Relations in the Modern Arab World (London/New York: Hurst & Co./Oxford University Press, 2020). On this special episode, Simon and Fanar talk about recent events in iraq, namely the emergence of protest movements, government responses, endemic corruption, fear, the role of Sistani and the future.