Hayder al-Khoei

Hayder al-Khoei is a researcher at the London-based Centre for Academic Shi'a Studies. He is also a research fellow at Forward Thinking, a contributing writer at the British Iraqi Forum and maintains his own blog

Arab Revolutions: double standards all round

Extremist Islamists may only be one small part of a wide cross-section of disenfranchised Libyans who could no longer bear the tyranny of Gadaffi, but they pose the question whether reactions to the Arab Revolutions are ever entirely innocent of double standards.

By Hayder al-Khoei

/ 25 Sep 2011

The clerics of Najaf and politicians of Baghdad

As Najaf, the institution that comprises Iraq's highest-ranking Shia clerics, announces it would stop meeting politicians until Baghdad supplies better services to the people, we see the country's complex tension between its religious and political authorities.

By Hayder al-Khoei

/ 24 Aug 2011

Leaving Basra to the bandits

How the British Army struck a disastrous deal with the Mehdi Army that turned Basra into a lawless city.

By Hayder al-Khoei

/ 31 May 2011

Sectarianism and conflict in Bahrain

The media and politicians have done Iraq a great disservice by highlighting the overt sectarian identity of the oppressor and the oppressed. It must not make this same mistake with Bahrain.

By Hayder al-Khoei

/ 16 Mar 2011