Zahra Ali

Zahra Ali is a sociologist and Assistant professor at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of Women and Gender in Iraq: between Nation-Building and Fragmentation published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. @ZahraSociology

العراق: الاحتجاجات تطالب بالتغيير والحكومة تستجيب بالعنف

مع تصاعد حجم التظاهرات في العراق، تصاعد القمع العنيف وغير المسبوق.

By Zahra Ali and Safaa Khalaf

/ 14 Oct 2019

العراق: الاحتجاجات تطالب بالتغيير والحكومة تستجيب بالعنف

In Iraq, demonstrators demand change and the government fights back

Initially described as protests over the economy, they have become a call for revolution.

By Zahra Ali and Safaa Khalaf

/ 14 Oct 2019

In Iraq, demonstrators demand change and the government fights back

Protest movements in Iraq in the age of a ‘new civil society’

For Iraqi youth, the demands for social justice and economic redistribution cannot be separated from the claim for sectarian equality and religious freedom.

By Zahra Ali

/ 4 Oct 2019

Protest movements in Iraq in the age of a ‘new civil society’

Iraq’s protest movement reveals the failure of the post-2003 regime

While Iraq is experiencing its fourth week of mass protests, it is essential to understand not only their direct causes but also the economic and political dynamics they reveal. العربية

By Zahra Ali and Safaa Khalaf

/ 8 Aug 2018

Iraqi feminists mobilise against sectarian laws

The sectarian personal status code comes in a context marked by social and religious conservatisms, sectarian conflicts, political instability and the absence of a strong unifying state.

By Zahra Ali

/ 15 Jun 2017

Young grassroots activism on the rise in Iraq: voices from Baghdad and Najaf

Through banners and slogans, grassroots groups find new, inclusive ways of being Iraqi in a country traumatised by authoritarianism, occupation and sectarian war.

By Zahra Ali

/ 5 May 2016