Tamara Chalabi

Tamara Chalabi is an independent scholar who earned her doctorate at Harvard University and is now based in London. Her book Shi'is of Jabal'Amil and the New Lebanon: Community and Nation-State, 1918-1943 will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in February 2006.

Iraq: unified by oil?

Hard times may still continue in Iraq. However, the hopes for social and political justice, as well as resolving the problem of federalism and containing the violent insurgency, might reside

By Tamara Chalabi

/ 13 Oct 2005

Journey to a liberated Iraq

There may still be some distance to travel before representative government can be established in Iraq, but a number of determined activists have independently taken their quest to their embattled

By Tamara Chalabi

/ 6 Feb 2003